On Liberty Quotes

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.