Zitat des Tages über Freiheit / Liberty:
My fellow Americans, from the battlefield to the capitals of our allies and friends and partners, the free peoples of the world look to America as the last best hope for peace and for liberty for all humankind, for we are the greatest country on this planet.
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
The Fifth Amendment speaks specifically to denying someone their life and liberty without due process. That is what H.R. 2 does, and I rise in opposition to it. And I rise in opposition because it is important that we preserve lives and we recognize that 40 million-plus are uninsured.
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.