On Liberty Quotes

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

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

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?

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.