On Liberty Quotes

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

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

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

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

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

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.