The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
– Thomas Jefferson
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- The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time. – Billy Graham
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. – Gustave de Molinari
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. – Thomas Jefferson
- He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth. – Thomas Jefferson
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson
- That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) – Thomas Jefferson
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson
- Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy. – Justus von Liebig
- Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government. – George Reisman
- The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. – Thomas Jefferson
- History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson
- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
- The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. – Thomas Jefferson
- The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. – Thomas Jefferson
- Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia – Earl Warren
- Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
- Liberty will never yield equality. Freewill produces a mess that you either accept or reject in favor of slavery. – AE Samaan
- The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. – Thomas E Woods Jr
- For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well. – Pearl Zhu
- Earth is the play ground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the play ground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces. – Amit Ray
- Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground. – Sun Tzu
- Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications. – Sunday Adelaja
- Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that? – Jefferson Smith
- When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party. – Julieanne OConner
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
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- I’m convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. – Justin Steckbauer
- Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory. – The Liberty Book
- Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
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- There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair. – HG Wells