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Letter "L" » Liberty
«Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us»
«Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.»
Author: Frederic Bastiat
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
beforehand, caused, contrary, existed, first cause, in the first place, on the contrary
«Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.»
«Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.»
«Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed»
«Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Liberty,
Men and Women,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
dread, dreading, liberty, responsibility
«Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
in vain, peril, The Perils of, vain
«Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.»
«Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Youth
| Keywords:
criminal law, dig, dungeons, educational, strict
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