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“I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.”

Ifs Feels Whole Lost Liberty Too Much Expression Lyrical

Author:Sean William Scott

“I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.”

Knows World Way May Hard Seems Sides Liberty Too Much Authority Favors

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.”

Knows Made Enough Shows Pleasure Liberty Moral Too Much Fortune Slave Casts Ignorant Vain Glances Boast Cowardly Being Free

Author:Jean-Paul Marat

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.”

Men Want Feels Trying Believe Looks Church Liberty Too Much Please Doctrine Latter Creeds Latter Days Methodists Latter Day Saints

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.”

Freedom Liberty Too Much

Author:Terence

“No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.”

Ifs Men Country Suffering Fall Liberty Too Much Constitution Defense

Book:The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

Source: The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.”

People Giving Littles Government Law Community Liberty Too Much Rights Degrees Authority Paid Regard Ruins Anarchy Despotism Framed Magistrates Guarding Encroachment Too Much Power Rigour

Book:1779-1781

Source: 1779-1781

“I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.”

People Want States Moments Bigs Government United Liberty United States Taken Too Much Independence Presidency Candidacy

Author:Michele Bachmann