Liberty Quotes · Page 75

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

— Ayn Rand

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

— Herbert Marcuse

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

— John Adams

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something…

— John Ruskin

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

— Charles Krauthammer

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their…

— Frederick Douglass

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

— William Henry Harrison

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That…

— Donald Trump

That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously.…

— Edward Snowden

Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and…

— Murray Rothbard

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming…

— Dan Quayle

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted…

— Thomas Paine

Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away…

— Oscar Romero

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:…

— Jon Meacham

Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our…

— Franklin Graham

The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and…

— Saul Alinsky

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of…

— Joel Miller

I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in…

— Murray Bookchin

I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when…

— Sam Rasoul

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the…

— James Madison

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and…

— Hannah Arendt

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,…

— Lord Acton

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

— Ted Cruz

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

— Dave Rubin

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

— B. R. Ambedkar

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

— Theobald of Bec

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

— James Forten

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have…

— Michel de Montaigne

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

— Thomas DiLorenzo

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

— Rand Paul

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty…

— Ronald Reagan

“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Clarence Darrow

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

— Edmund Spenser

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

— John Adams