On Liberty Quotes
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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.
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
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.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
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.
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.