The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the... consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ransom Stoddard: I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna kill 'em. I wanna put 'em in jail. Tom Donophon: Well, I... know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems. Ransom Stoddard: No. Do, do you know what you're saying to me? D'you know? You're saying exactly what Liberty Valance said. What kind of community have I come to. You all seem to know about this fellow Liberty Valance. He's a no-good, gun-packing murdering thief. But the only advice you can give to me is to carry a gun. Well, I'm a lawyer. Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law. And the law is the only, the only.... [he collapses]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can forget what I said about buying the gun. You're a tenderfoot. Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picket Wire-...-next to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is "inseparable" from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,... moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; and ...a partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that M...eans, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, ma...ke private interest submit to the interest of the public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,... on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run ma...ny hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »