Best liberty & mere Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.”

“Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.”

Matter Differences Liberty Principles Atheism Claims Absolutes Mere Positive Atheism Wide Tolerate Contention Concessions Toleration Expediency

Author:George W Truett

“The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.”

World Long Law Liberty Enemy Military Danger Possibility Morality Mere Western Nazi Western World

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”

People Ifs Stills Reason Force Growth Liberty Progress Roots Mere Accidents Tyranny Unprepared

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815

“We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.”

Liberty Mere Dare Kingdoms Nonviolence Homage

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish foundation, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it, to do anything that shall remove this encroachment on Christian liberty.”

Ifs Made Christian Order Liberty Holy Foundation Mere Sake Remove Observance Encroachment

Author:Martin Luther

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

Ifs Men Want Mean Motivational Turns Liberty Cases Progress Evolution Walking Mere Live Life Progressive Work In Progress Right Road Progress In Life Wrong Road Turns In The Road

Author:C. S. Lewis

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