On Liberty Quotes

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.'

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

Only God, no other kings!

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.