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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
by James Q. Wilson (Politician, American , born in 1931) keywords: also, becomes, law, liberty, licentiousness, loses, name, nature, oppression , without America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: america, among, create, discover, established, ideal, liberty, maintain, men, realize, vision , wealth I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: belong, ceased, free, had, liberty, love, nation, poor, rather, rich, than , would Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: always, come, government, governmental, history, increase, liberty, limitations, never, power , subjects The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: democracy, foundations, liberty, made, must, peace, planted, political, safe, tested, upon , world Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
by John Winthrop (Celebrity, English , born in 1587) keywords: authority, cannot, end, good, honest, just, liberty, object, proper, subsist, which , without I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
by Henry A. Wise (Statesman, American , born in 1806) keywords: another, authority, civil, conflict, defend, fight, liberty, revolutionary, secede, sovereign, state, under, union, which , will Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: also, because, become, course, liberty, obligation, once, want, why , writer The right not to have the State prescribe a set of acceptable spouses, in the absence of the kind of powerful reason it would have for incest laws or laws designed to protect children, is implicit in the concept of liberty.
by Diane Wood (Judge, American , born in 1950) keywords: absence, acceptable, children, concept, designed, implicit, incest, kind, laws, liberty, powerful, prescribe, protect, reason, right, set, spouses, state , would I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
by Victoria Woodhull (Activist, American , born in 1838) keywords: before, come, declare, entitled, happiness, inalienable, liberty, life, pursuit, right , sex Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
by Frances Wright (Writer, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: doing, exert, expense, injury, justly, liberties, liberty, others, our, own, platform, step, sure, them, threshold, thus, tyranny, uncertain, unjustly, upon , without But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: attention, been, civilized, engaged, enlightened, enlisted, feelings, generous, human, liberty, may, nations, rightly, understood , while It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: advantages, appear, attentive, best, consideration, cooperation, equality, evident, foundation, intellectual, interests, labor, liberty, may, obtained, only, perhaps, physical, such, sure, union, upon , will I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
by Don Young (Politician, American , born in 1933) keywords: any, constitution, disservice, federal, few, government, just, justification, land, liberty, maybe, nothing, other, own, owning, parks, see, statue, than , think Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
by Lin Yutang (Author, Chinese , born in 1895) keywords: justice, lawyers, liberty, many, peace, policemen, soldiers, too , where The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
by Leopold Zunz (Clergyman, German , born in 1794) keywords: find, first, liberty, miss, second, seek, step, third , toward
