Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 1279 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.~ Justice Tom C. Clark All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.~ Henry Clay It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.~ Bill Clinton When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.~ Bill Clinton The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.~ Frank I. Cobb This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.~ Frank I. Cobb Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.~ William S. Cohen But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.~ Hartley Coleridge A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.~ R. G. Collingwood By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.~ Anthony Collins Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.~ Charles Caleb Colton Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.~ Henry Steele Commager The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.~ Henry Steele Commager Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print