On Liberty Quotes
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
