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A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure. — Nick Rahall

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. — Jimmy Carter

[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

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty. — Joseph Sobran

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

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

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. — Walt Whitman

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

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. — John Adams

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough. — John Calvin

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

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power. — Thomas Cooper

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. — John Ruskin

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

Wesley's final point about Christ's fulfillment of the law: the liberty that Christ brings is not a liberty from the law, but a liberty for the law.43 — Randy Maddox

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

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden

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

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville