On Liberty Quotes

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.