On Liberty Quotes

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

This liberty is all that I request.

I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.