Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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.
-
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.
-
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
-
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
-
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.
-
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
-
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!
-
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
-
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
-
Liberty means more to me than life itself.
-
The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
-
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
-
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.
-
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
-
Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
-
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.
-
Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
-
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
-
All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
-
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
