On Liberty Quotes

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Liberty is a product of order.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.