Liberty Quotes & Sayings
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Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of
liberty. —
Isabelle Eberhardt

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. —
Joseph Sobran

Whenever a separation is made between
liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. —
Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil
liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. —
Edmund Burke
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. —
Isaiah Berlin

Risk is the inevitable product of
liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. —
Tony Snow
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it. —
Ignazio Silone

This freedom, this
liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. —
Robert Hayden

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with
liberty. —
Woodrow Wilson

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so. —
Will Rogers

Law is order in
liberty, and without order
liberty is social chaos. —
Sydney J. Harris
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. —
Woodrow Wilson

When
liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered. —
Dorothy Thompson

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends —
Alexis De Tocqueville

Under democracy, individual
liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. —
Mahatma Gandhi

It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of
liberty and of brotherly love —
Emmuska Orczy

But freedom,
liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. —
Ralph Adams Cram
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once. —
David Hume

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at
liberty to play the fool? —
John Locke

What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the
liberty of the Egyptian people. —
Ahmed Zewail
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. —
Edmund Burke

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

Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. —
Stefan Molyneux

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. —
Jean-Paul Sartre

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of
liberty. —
Dante Alighieri

Fuck socialism!
No, really..... fuck socialism. Socialism sucks! —
A.E. Samaan

Love is the key to light, life and
liberty. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Philosophy means the complete
liberty of the mind. —
Henri Frederic Amiel

Joy is a right and
liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last. —
Auliq Ice

The two things he most valued, which is to say
liberty and equality, were not natural allies. —
Christopher Hitchens

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of
liberty that I want and not the artificial product. —
Mahatma Gandhi

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious
liberty. —
Bob Abernethy
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. —
Giacomo Matteotti

The true danger is when
liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. —
Edmund Burke

The true remedy for most evils is none other than
liberty, unlimited and complete
liberty,
liberty in every field of human endeavor. —
Gustave De Molinari

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of
liberty. —
Edward Dahlberg

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon
liberty. —
Herbert Hoover

Power is so apt to be insolent and
Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms. —
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. —
Cormac McCarthy

It is easy to take
liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. —
Dick Cheney

Opportunities have often felt like obligations to me. —
Kevin DeYoung

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice
liberty. —
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The love of
liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins. —
Jimmy Carter

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. —
William E. Gladstone

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered
liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. —
Edward Abbey

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. —
A.E. Samaan

Perfect
Liberty follows no rules, law, or any virtue for that matter. It disregards respect, courteousness, and love. —
Veronica Mist

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. —
Bill Bright

I have known many of those pretended champions for
liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant. —
Oliver Goldsmith

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality.
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. —
D.H. Lawrence
Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. —
Ron Paul

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was
liberty. —
Nathaniel Branden

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. —
Noam Chomsky

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild
liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. —
Sam Houston

Equality, because without it there can be no
liberty. —
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in
liberty. —
Neal Boortz

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our
liberty, we must be ready to fight for it. —
Jonathan M. Wainwright

As a writer, I always tend to take the
liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. —
Dwight Yoakam

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. —
John Stuart Mill

Now, one of the most essential branches of English
liberty is the freedom of one's house. —
James Otis

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. —
Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. —
Tacitus

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the
liberty of the people in a land of freedom. —
Daniel D. Palmer

Where security exists,
liberty and opportunity do not. —
Benjamin Franklin

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip. —
George Orwell

God gave us Lincoln and
Liberty, let us fight for both. —
Ulysses S. Grant

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and
liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. —
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever would overthrow the
liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. —
Benjamin Franklin