L Quotes
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“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”
Source: The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
“Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.”
“Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Liberty and equality are magical words.”
“Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.”
Source: The Power of Ideas
“Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!”
Source: Selected Writings
“Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.”
“Liberty and freedom will never be without its enemies, for such things are entirely perilous for those who subvert any passion for the good of their fellowman and force authoritarian, totalitarian, and other such regimes on repressed peoples. Yet, may we as American’s construct a nation united with such force and depth of determination that our enemies both home and abroad will find themselves decisively defeated before they ever step on the battlefield.”
“Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.”
“Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.”
Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
“Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.”
“Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
“Liberty appeared to Minister Martin Luther King as a dream, let's hope it will not remain just a beautiful dream.”
“Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.”
“Liberty begets license.”
“Liberty bestows upon us an utterly incalculable and nearly inexhaustible array of benefits. Yet, in the immensity of such overwhelming blessings, we can never afford to forget that the single greatest benefit that liberty will ever bestow upon us is the privilege of sacrificing every single one of those benefits for the preservation of the liberties that gifted us with those benefits. This attitude empowers great nations and draws the admiration of others.”
“Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.”
“Liberty can be obtained, it cannot be regained.”
Source: The Social Contract
“Liberty can change habits.”
“Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.”
Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc
“Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.”
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“Liberty comes only after security.”
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.”
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
“Liberty consists in wholesome restraint”
“Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”
Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”
“Liberty does not mean freedom to do anything;but freedom to do right thing.”
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.”
Source: The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions
“Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.”
“Liberty for all; chains for none.”
Source: The Portable Frederick Douglass
“Liberty for each, for all, and forever!”
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.”
“Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
“Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.”