Meaning of Diplomacy, Liberty, and Democracy

Quotes about Diplomacy, Liberty, and Democracy

What would they have? 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

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of Man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it. – Herbert Hoover

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. – Maxwell Anderson

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. – Thomas Jefferson

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. – Thomas Paine

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and not in being constrained to do what we ought not to will. – Jonathan Edwards

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. – Power is ever stealing from the many to the few… The hand entrusted with power becomes… the necessary enemy of the people. – Wendell Philips

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetite… - Edmund Burke

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin

The struggle between liberty and authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar… - John Stuart Mill

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. – Woodrow Wilson

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. – Daniel Webster

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction. – General Douglas MacArthur

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. – Daniel Webster

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. – Thomas Jefferson

Civil liberty is only natural liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of Man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society. – Learned Hand

There is… no liberty but liberty under law. Law does not restrict liberty; it creates the only real liberty there is. – William Sumner

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. – Max Sterner

For the saddest epitaph, which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty, is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time. – George Sutherland

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution no law no court can save it; no constitution no law no court can even do much to help it… - Learned Hand

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. – Lord Palmerston

We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are [fair] friends and brave enemies. – Thomas Jefferson

Speak softly and carry a big [rod]; you will go far. – Theodore Roosevelt

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