
Said to the Countess Russell and recorded in her diary, Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910), edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 252
1870s
A Living Bill of Rights (1961), p. 64
Other speeches and writings
Said to the Countess Russell and recorded in her diary, Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910), edited by Desmond McCarthy and Agatha Russell. p. 252
1870s
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 31
“No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
Final accounting in the Estate of A.B. (1866) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/no_mans_life_liberty_or_property_are_safe_while_the_legislature_is_in_sessi/
“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”
1920s, Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)
Context: The Constitution and laws of our country are adopted and enacted through the direct action of the people, or through their duly chosen representatives. They reflect the enlightened conscience of our country. They ought always to speak with the true and conscientious voice of the people. Such voice has from time immemorial had the authority of divine sanction. In their great fundamentals they do not change. As new light arrives they may be altered in their details, but they represent the best that we know at any given time. To support the Constitution, to observe the laws, is to be true to our own higher nature. That is the path, and the only path, towards liberty. To resist them and violate them is to become enemies to ourselves and instruments of our own destruction. That is the path towards servitude. Obedience is not for the protection of someone else, but for the protection of ourselves. It needs to be remembered that it has to be secured not through the action of others, but through our own actions. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
“America means Civil Liberties, Patriotism Is protecting them”
Patriotisme
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/947823304500490242 (1 January 2018)
2018
Cuthell's Case (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 674.
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
1780s
“We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.”
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online. Final speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference as Leader, 26 September 2006.
2000s