When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Popularity is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

When liberty returns, I will return.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

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.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

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.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.