Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equa...lly restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man. After all th...e deductions which are to be made of for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die, whether James or whether Jonathan shall sit in the chair and hold the purse; after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently, which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few hours' mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equal...ity and fraternity--and liberty is finally added by sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excit...e in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To w...rite a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and t...he name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoléon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us h...ave the great thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It prov...es that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation th...ey derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »