Liberty Quotes

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...

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

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

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

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting ...

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence...

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one ...

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the governm...

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other ...

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...

The spirit of liberty is not extinguished; it burns with a steady flame.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in a...

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constit...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeg...

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of...

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as ...

This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for...

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. On...

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brande...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - h...

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or e...

Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology...

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to h...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand a...

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand a...

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does ...

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i...

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their ow...

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in...

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur mu...

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: wh...

The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-mi...

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my...

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by thei...

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and eve...

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words...

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that ...

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the U...

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upo...

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Whe...

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What m...

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...