Herbert Spencer Quotes

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Herbert Spencer

• Freedom
• Liberty
• Slave
• Surrender
• Despotism

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• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

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• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

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• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

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• Freedom is living without chains.

  

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• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

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• I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.

  

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• You need to know when to surrender the album.

  

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• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

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• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

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• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  

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• The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

  

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• The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

  

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• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  

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• Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

  

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• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  

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• Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

  

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• To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

  

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• For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

  

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• If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Slave