On Liberty Quotes

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.