On Liberty Quotes

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

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.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

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

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.