It also tended to create revolt against infractions of civil liberty or violations of political justice.
When the king grew angry and attempted to rule without a Parliament, the Puritan party broadened its purpose and became the champion also of civil liberty.
Civil liberty is that which the one cannot have without the many, or the many without the one.
The virtue of single individuals will not give them civil liberty in a despotic state, but the only safeguard of civil liberty to all is the virtue of each individual.
It is the graceful ornament of civil liberty, and a happy restraint on the asperities which political controversies sometimes occasion.
Already the Huguenots were settling in South Carolina, and were planting the principles of civil liberty there.
He was always the advocate of civil liberty, but conservative in his country, where representatives and constituents were alike inordinately radical.
But the puritans, eager as they were to exert the utmost severity of the law against the professors of the old religion, had more regard to civil liberty than to approve such a violation of it.
Washington is the mightiest name of earth long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation.
It is the basis of civil liberty; and in this country, I trust, will ever be a sacred bulwark against oppression and encroachment upon political freedom.
Taxation without representation is abhorrent to every principle of natural or civil liberty.
It guaranteed to every German citizen the rights of civil liberty, equality before the law, and responsible parliamentary government, both central and local.
In this experiment we have a full test of what the African is in the enjoyment of civil liberty, or of his capacity for self-government, at least in the midst of a people with whom he cannot amalgamate.
This, without doubt, is the plan indicated by Providence, as affording the most natural means of accomplishing their ultimate fitness for a more desirable form of civil liberty.
Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure.
The definitions which have been framed of civil liberty, and which have become the subject of much unnecessary altercation, are most of them adapted to this idea.
Thus it is that in the progress of time the inestimable principles of civil liberty will be enjoyed by millions yet unborn and the great benefits of our system of government be extended to now distant and uninhabited regions.
He considered it the cause of civil liberty; and gloomy as was the prospect, hazardous as was the enterprize, he was determined to support it at the risk of life itself.
Natural liberty gives place in organized society to civil liberty, which is a much more modest and limited thing.
Civil liberty," says Blackstone, "is no other than natural liberty so far restrained by human laws as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public.
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