Quotes by Liberty What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? Abraham Lincoln prosperity slavery liberty We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. Abraham Lincoln civil-war liberty mean I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old. Abraham Lincoln liberty dying hands The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us. Abraham Lincoln events liberty struggle The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln democracy liberty men I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. Abraham Lincoln individual liberty matter Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society. A.C. Grayling liberty different rights We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. Adam Schiff democracy liberty hippie Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Adam Smith citizens liberty government It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. Adam Smith liberty humanity self Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master. Adam Smith liberty government pay Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention. Adam Smith invisible-hand liberty hands To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. Adam Smith examination liberty would-be Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous. Adlai Stevenson I liberty freedom prison An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson I libertarian editors liberty Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think. Adolf Eichmann liberty needs thinking For we love liberty just as we love peace. Adolf Hitler liberty Little liberties are great offenses. Aesop offense liberty littles Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man. African Spir higher liberty men It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice. African Spir liberty justice may «1234567891011»