On Liberty Quotes

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."~ Hardy Cates

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.