Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

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

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Safeguards

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• 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

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• 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

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

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

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

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

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• 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

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• 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

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

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Like

• If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.

  

  William Wardell
  • Company
  • Liberty
  • Drug

• Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Decision
  • End
  • February

• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
  • People
  • Up
  • Guilty

• Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Gratitude
  • Blessings

• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Pleasure

• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Liberty
  • Americans
  • Lions