Herbert Spencer Quotes

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Herbert Spencer

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Safeguards

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• 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!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Backwards
  • Check
  • Minorities

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

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

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Want
  • Liberty
  • Now

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

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

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Love
  • Way
  • Liberty

• We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Failure

• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Memories

• Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Remember
  • Enemy
  • Liberty

• You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Men
  • She
  • Nature

• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Money
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Government
  • Liberty

• Once I ran to you, now I run from you.

  

  Gloria Jones T. Rex
  • Run

• One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

  

  William Hull
  • Problem
  • Ideas
  • Active

• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Liberty
  • Minorities
  • Insignificant