On Liberty Quotes

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights go out.

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

America is far and away superior to every other place on earth, in terms of lifestyles, liberty, and freedom. In terms of the human condition, there's no place like it.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty