Richard Lovelace Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
-
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
-
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
-
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
-
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.
-
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!
-
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.
-
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
-
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
-
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
-
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
-
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
-
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
-
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
-
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.
-
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
-
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".
-
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
-
Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
