On Liberty Quotes

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Free is not the same as free and easy.

I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.

My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Liberty must not be abused.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.