But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust that populists are going to defend religious liberty and the rights of creedal minorities.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.
