Liberty Quotes

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be ack...

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...

The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to ensla...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...

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

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under obser...

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We should give to our rulers, our sires and sons no rest until all our rights— social, civil and pol...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

Riches I hold in light esteem,And love I laugh to scorn,And lust of fame was but a dreamThat vanishe...

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the ...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

Give me your tired your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of...

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that...

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

I love thee as I love all that we have fought for. I love thee as I love liberty and dignity and the...

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. The history o...

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in...

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardl...

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

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!Blest ...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are relat...

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty....

Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: “For too long we have been a passively tolera...

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests o...

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep aw...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer fr...

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No whe...

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are...

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does i...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of l...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally de...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spi...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in do...

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and fr...

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but ...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involve...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if th...

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really de...

And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie."Comrade," said Snowball, "th...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, w...

There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymo...

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

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my...