On Liberty Quotes

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.