#liberty

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#liberty #rights #equality

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand? ↗

— Pat Schroeder

#justice #liberty #equality

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. ↗

— John Rawls

#liberalism #liberty #equality

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constitution #liberty #morality #usa #values

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#god #liberty #faith

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#liberty #prison #secure #freedom

Unites States: the country where liberty is a statue. ↗

— Nicanor Parra

#freedom #liberty #freedom

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ↗