Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.
Charles Dickens"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.
L.M. FieldsTags: truth liberty knowledge inspiration freedom
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B.R. AmbedkarOnce you clear the minds of the people of this misconception and enable them to realise that what they are told is religion is not religion, but that it is really law, you will be in a position to urge its amendment or abolition.
B.R. AmbedkarTags: liberty freedom religion discrimination
There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.
James BurnhamTags: liberty power opposition
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.
Thomas SzaszTags: liberty responsibility
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonTags: liberty
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And in losing its soul it will lose the very world it gained. Even our own so-called Liberal culture in these United States which has tried to avoid complete secularization by leaving little zones of individual freedom is in danger of forgetting that these zones were preserved only because religion was in their soul. And as religion fades so will freedom, for only where the spirit of God is, is there liberty.
Fulton J. SheenTags: liberty freedom god liberalism catholicism catholic
Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
Louisa May AlcottTags: liberty
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PlatoTags: liberty excess state individual slavery
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