Liberty Quotes

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner. — Frederic Bastiat

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken. — Max Stirner

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. — Mikhail Bakunin

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty — Benjamin Franklin

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty. — Alex Tabarrok

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. — Daniel Webster

I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free... — Sanhita Baruah

People only have as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
-Emma Goldman — Sophia Amoruso

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. — Thomas Paine

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. — Pablo Picasso

Interior liberty is universal. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. — Abraham Lincoln

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. — Eric Liu

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — Yanko Tsvetkov

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix — Baron De Montesquieu

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. — Rebecca Solnit

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty. — Harold Laski

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. — Ted Cruz

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. — Thomas Paine

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. — Will Rogers

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. — Tiffany Madison

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. — Euripides

Liberty is a duty, not a right. — Benito Mussolini

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it. — Arthur Miller

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. — Frances Wright

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