#liberty

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. ↗

— George Savile

#contend #get #liberty #masters #new

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all". ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#justice #liberty #pledge #says

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#keeping #liberty #men #money #only

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. ↗

— Tecumseh

#country #defend #fathers #form #graves

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid. ↗

— William Scott

#arid #aware #become #becomes #expression

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. ↗

— Paul Harris

#concerned #cradle #deed #descendants #england

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #great #great man #great thing #let us

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#grew #having #i #ignorant #liberty