Loss Of Liberty Quotes

#1. The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Alexander Hamilton

#2. Imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

Mary B. Harris

#3. The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

John Peter Zenger

#4. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

#5. For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

#6. The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Amartya Sen

#7. Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

#8. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

#9. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

James Madison

#10. The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

#11. On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Andy Hargreaves

#12. If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

Tracy Morgan

#13. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

Salman Rushdie

#14. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

Lauren Collins

#15. I just think women are funnier than men.

Margaret Cho

#16. Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Allan H. Meltzer

#17. Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

Steve Carell

#18. You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

Eric J. Martindale

#19. It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

Edmund Burke

#20. Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions.

Kevin Kelly

#21. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

William A. Niskanen

#22. A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

#23. Nothing is guaranteed ... So don't be afraid. Be alive.

Sarah Dessen

#24. The last time I checked, the only difference between my gay friends and I is who we choose to love. I'm not sure how that warrants a loss of rights, but it needs to stop. What ever happened to liberty and justice for all?

Pink

#25. Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

Jeff Atwood

#26. The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

Nancy Pearcey

#27. Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

John Longenecker

#28. I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

Christopher Darden

#29. If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties,

Ron Paul

#30. The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap.

Catherynne M Valente

#31. Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

Grace Jones

#32. Big government = oligarchy.
Simple equation.
Big government = loss of representation.

A.E. Samaan

#33. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

James Madison

#35. The mark of a man of God is God upon the man,

Paul Washer