#liberty

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#been #concentrated #enemy #liberty #power

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ↗

— Will Rogers

#liberty #practice #speeches #well #work

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#believe #convulsive #i #i do #idea

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. ↗

— Lord Acton

#liberty #like #ought #power #right

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. ↗

— John Adams

#mankind #property #real #right #surely

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. ↗

— Dario Fo

#homeland #law #liberty #our #revolution

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#any #assure #bear #burden #every

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defenders #defense #during #faith #fighting

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. ↗

— Burl Ives

#benjamin #benjamin franklin #franklin #had #how