On Liberty Quotes

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

Liberty can change habits.

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

The only object of liberty is life.