Liberty Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Liberty
Liberty Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Liberty quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous 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
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
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
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
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
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
Liberty is a duty, not a right.
— Benito Mussolini
We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.
— Arthur Miller
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
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
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
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
Love is the key to light, life and liberty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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 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
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 American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
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
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
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
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
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
