Freedom Limits Quotes

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

The chief danger which threatens the influence and honor of the press is the tendency of its liberty to degenerate into license.

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

Freedom is not enough.

I am not putting a check on anyone. I just have to say that India's Constitution has given certain rights and freedom to people, but there are some limits, too.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

… by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Any individual right or freedom is properly extended only to those who accept the fundamental rules of democracy. How … could any society survive which deliberately nursed its own avowed and irreconcilable assassin, and freely exposed its heart to his knife.

If the President takes away from the strong man the right to hit the little man over the head with a club, is that too great curtailment of liberty? We must assure the little man's right not to be clubbed.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom.

The rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the right to advocate the destruction of the very government that protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.