Liberty Quotes

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful s...

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They...

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that h...

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, lov...

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affiniti...

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesti...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; tha...

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they ...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling t...

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws ...

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is...

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this eno...

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case...

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a co...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation ...

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never...

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to ...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too...

The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good...

He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th...

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting ...

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this ...

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly an...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords...

If we regard the state as the father, and the citizens as children, there are three alternatives. Fi...

Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; ...

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The forme...

The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (...

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--tha...

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--wh...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they depr...

Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of ...

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is i...

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pur...

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neig...

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much libert...

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here,...

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. Thi...

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Small tyrants, threatened by big,sincerely believethey love liberty.

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it,...

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd suppor...

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main busi...

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploita...

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gal...

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & He...

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unwort...