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personal liberty
«The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.»
Author: Margot Asquith
| Keywords:
free people, ingrained, pathetically, people of England, personal liberty, The Americans, titles, untrue
«In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| Keywords:
interdependence, personal liberty, personal property, right to liberty
«The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| Keywords:
dichotomy, liberties, personal liberty, personal property, property right, property rights, right to liberty
«Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.»
«Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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delights, disinclined, Extreme Measures, inclined, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating, manage, measures, personal liberty, resorting, supple, therein
«We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
bulwark, individual liberty, personal liberty, privacy, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
decline, personal liberty, walk about
«Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Rules
| Keywords:
capital punishment, fulfill, injuries, personal liberty, subjected
«Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
Born Free, personal liberty