Liberty Quotes · Page 76

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and…

— John F. Kennedy

“For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

— D. H. Lawrence

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

— Benjamin Franklin

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their…

— John F. Kennedy

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to…

— Etienne de La Boetie

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty…

— Edmund Burke

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by…

— David Mamet

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace…

— Rudy Giuliani

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise…

— Edward Everett

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and…

— Voltaire

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive…

— James Madison

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and…

— Benjamin Constant

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,…

— John Adams

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where…

— Cyril Connolly

Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers…

— Gouverneur Morris

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the…

— Sean Wilentz

Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal…

— Francis Galton

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be…

— Stefan Molyneux

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…

— John Stuart Mill

“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”

— Thomas Jefferson

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great…

— Victor Hugo

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

— Samuel Adams

That is freedom: When you voluntarily relinquish everything you are trying to hold onto. Thats the first taste of true freedom.

— Swami Premodaya

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

— Harry A. Blackmun

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

— Emily Greene Balch

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Liberty never had to file bankruptcy, thanks to God's blessings, but we did go through tough times and painful debt restructuring in…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire

— Thomas Paine

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

— Gary Johnson

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

— Anonymous

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

— James Madison