Liberty Quotes · Page 100

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

— Rand Paul

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

— George Washington

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

— Jay Leno

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

— William Henry Harrison

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

— John Rawls

“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”

— William Shakespeare

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

— Frank Chodorov

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say,…

— Harry Browne

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous…

— William Jennings Bryan

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“France took a statist turn very early, so speaking up for liberty meant speaking against the state. In America, given the centrality…

— Anonymous

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too…

— James Madison

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is…

— Ron Paul

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty…

— James Bovard

For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent…

— Jeffrey Rosen

The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the…

— Jose Marti

“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses…

— W. Cleon Skousen

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed…

— Anonymous

Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and…

— Peter McWilliams

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office,…

— Robert E. Lee

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and…

— Spiro T. Agnew

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

— Anonymous

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

— Edmund Burke

“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her…

— Tiffany Madison

“Liberty was fought with bullets, Blood was shed for independence, Sacrifices were made for freedom.”

— D.L. Lewis

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

— Barack Obama

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains…

— Robert E. Lee

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the…

— Nelson Mandela

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

— Bernard Bailyn

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

— Zoroaster

Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

— Laozi

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

— Cass Sunstein

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous…

— Mustafa Akyol

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

— Aleister Crowley