Herbert Spencer Quotes
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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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.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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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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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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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.
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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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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
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I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
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Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
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Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.
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The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
