Liberty Quotes - page 3

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. (Felix Frankfurter)
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. View quote
Georg Büchner
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. View quote
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. View quote
Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. View quote
Edmund Burke
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. View quote
Emil Cioran
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. (Samuel Adams)
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. View quote
George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. View quote
George Washington
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. View quote
George Santayana
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. View quote
Davy Crockett
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. View quote
Earl Warren
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. (Barry Goldwater)
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. View quote
Will Durant
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.' View quote
Benjamin Franklin
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
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