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Letter "L" » Liberty
«The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Dreams,
Freedom,
Humanity,
Liberty,
Mind
| Keywords:
American Dream, liberation, The American
«Socialism values equality more than liberty.»
«There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher
| About:
Choice,
Decision,
Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Privacy
| Keywords:
choices, decisions, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, liberties, of his own, privacy, realm, right of privacy
«So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar? But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.»
«That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
People,
Security
| Keywords:
encroachment, encroachments, superiors, undeniable
«The basis of a democratic state is liberty.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic state
«There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.»
«They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty»
«The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave»
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