On Liberty Quotes

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.