On Liberty Quotes

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

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.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

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

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

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

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

People fear witches, and burn women.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.