The English Governor did not grant the Boers the measure of political liberty which he had promised; this led to a revolt, and a small body of English soldiers was beaten at Majuba Hill (1881).
William's reign was a prolonged struggle for the great Protestant cause and for the maintenance of political liberty in both England and Holland.
Sir, we talk much, and talk warmly, of political liberty; and well we may, for it is among the chief of public blessings.
One half of Europe was crushed beneath the Bourbon sceptre, and no conception of political liberty, no hope even of religious toleration, existed among that nation which was America's first ally.
Guizot, "liberty, it is political liberty, the liberty of the citizen.
Guizot alluded to the shipwreck of political liberty; we are not aware that there is any other better-founded or more legitimate interpretation.
In 1840 German philosophy begins to develop in the direction of Radicalism, and the poets begin openly to advocate the cause of political liberty.
Like Börne he is the champion of the Jewish race, of the proletariat, and of political liberty.
The denial of nationality, therefore, implies the denial of political liberty.
Even the highly civilised Kelt of France, familiar as he is with theories of political liberty, seems almost incapable of sustaining free institutions.
Political liberty, then, was engendered and developed in the hearts of men and nations.
In the second place, there was a development of political liberty.
Pure monarchy sought at all times the suppression of political liberty.
On the tough stock of a race who through all change of circumstance was never without the idea of political liberty, which is the animus of all liberty, it has attracted the terms of daintier and gayer and subtler and more elegant tongues.
He has told us that our most cherish'd ideas of political liberty, with their kindred corollaries, are mere illusions, and that the progress which has seem'd to go along with them is a progress towards anarchy and social dissolution.
In a word, we find in it neither the peculiar virtues nor the peculiar vices which are engendered and fostered by an atmosphere of political liberty.
Terrorist activity will cease only with the victory over autocracy and the complete attainment of political liberty.
The necessary prelude to this happy era of political liberty was, of course, the abolition of serfage.
The ascendency of Holland was as inseparably connected with the prevalence of political liberty and of mutual toleration among Protestant sects.
The immediate effect of the Reformation in England was by no means favourable to political liberty.
For that very reason Anglo-Saxon Nonconformity has rendered inestimable service to political liberty.
In the Germany of the first half of the nineteenth century many a University professor suffered in the cause of political liberty.
Germany enjoys a measure of political liberty which is absolutely unknown in our own country.
German Protestantism has never rendered a single service to political liberty, for the simple reason that its political practice has been consistently the reverse.
Its development had assuredly brought about a very great expansion of the ideas of Western civilisation over the face of the globe, and, above all, a remarkable diffusion of the institutions of political liberty.
They were apt to think of themselves as the inventors and monopolists of political liberty.
The Revolutionary and Imperial eras had naturally bequeathed this idea; France had only become acquainted with political libertyby revolutions, and with order by despotism; harmony between them appeared to be a chimera.
I am certainly not called upon today to dwell on this evil; it has become the hackneyed theme of the adversaries of representative government, and of political liberty.
Finally, the general end of the National party is the intellectual and moral regeneration of the country by a better observance of the law, by increased education, and by political liberty, which they hold to be the life of the people.
Neither had they any real quarrel with the Khedive or the Control, trusting in these to permit the development of political liberty in their country in the direction of Parliamentary and constitutional self-government.
The silence of the people made Ismail Pasha's rule possible in Egypt, and silence now would leave their hope of political liberty unfulfilled.
Political liberty in a citizen is the tranquillity of mind which comes from the opinion he has of his own security; and to give him this liberty the government must be such that no citizen can be afraid of another.
Much blood and confusion might have been spared, and many useful reforms accomplished, had Frenchmen clutched less wildly at the phantom of equality, and sought the safer goal of political liberty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "political liberty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
