Best liberty & acknowledge Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”

Persons Liberty Principles Equal Complaining Tolerance Acknowledge Denied Sects

Author:John Rawls

“I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen... I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”

Men Humans Humanity Liberty Conditions He Man Men And Women Fellows Limitation Denial Acknowledge Confirmation

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.”

Source: Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Delivered in the Music Hall, at the Request of the City Government, Boston, 4 July, 1876

“If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.”

Source: Oration and memorial addresses

“True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.”

Men Nations Liberty Rights Equal Acknowledge Equal Rights

Book:Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress

Source: Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress

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