liberties quotes

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

- Edmund Burke
  Speech, Buckinghamshire.

O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!

- Daniel pseudonym of  Daniel George Bunting George
  The Perpetual Pessimist.

History does not provide us with any instance of a society that repressed the economic liberties of the

- Irving Kristol
Hungarian-born  British  film  producer.  He  worked  in Vienna, Berlin  and  Hollywood  before  coming  to  Britain  in  the  early 1930s  where  he  founded  London  Film  Productions   and  the Denham Studios.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

The spirit that now resists your taxation in America is†the same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  Speech to the House of Lords, 20 Jan.

IwasbornaTory, amaTory, and shall dieaTory.Inever yet heard that it was any part of the faith of aTory to take the institutions and liberties, the laws and customs that his country has evolved over the centuries, and mergethem with those of eight other nations into a new-made artificial stateand what is more, to do so without the willing approbation and consent of the nation.

- (John) Enoch Powell
  Speech against Britain's entry into the Common Market, Shipley, 25 Feb.