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[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
— B.R. Ambedkar
History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.
— A.E. Samaan
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
— Wolf DeVoon
The problem for the King is just how strict
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state ... — Robert Frost
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state ... — Robert Frost
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
— Jeremy Bentham
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
— Bianca Jagger
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
— William Blackstone
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
— Benjamin Whichcote
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
— Horace Greeley
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
— Thomas Paine
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
— Henry Martyn Robert
Clothed in the majesty of the law one may get away with murder, but lacking the law's prestige one defends himself at the risk of life and liberty.
— J. Sidna Allen
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.
— Frank Lautenberg
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
— Aleister Crowley
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
— Voltaire
I do not believe in equality of results. I believe in "equal opportunity" and "equality before the law".
— A.E. Samaan
A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
— A.E. Samaan
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.
— Joseph Sobran
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
— Murray Rothbard
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.
— Richard Carlile
Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
— A.E. Samaan
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
The law of England is a law of liberty .
— Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
— J.G. Holland
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
— Walter E. Williams