Liberty Quotes · Page 19

“Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

— John Calvin

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

— Samuel Adams

“Leave the heart that now I bear, and give me liberty!”

— Emily Brontë

A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.

— Anonymous

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

— Wole Soyinka

“External vigilance is the price of liberty.”

— Wendell Phillips

Free men of every generation must combat renewed efforts of organized force and greed to destroy liberty.

— Robert La Folette

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like…

— Brandon Simpson

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

— Ludwig von Mises

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development…

— Erich Fromm

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

— Donald T. Regan

“Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. (about her sister)”

— Charlotte Brontë

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

— Bruce Lee

“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone…

— Elise Stefanik

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's…

— Penn Jillette

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use…

— William Shakespeare

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great…

— Douglas MacArthur

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To…

— Lucretius

“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime…

— James Carriger Paine

The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested…

— Mark Levin

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“But what Liberty would remember best was the feel of his own small hand gathered in the warm, comforting grip of the…

— Stephen Wright

One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.…

— H. L. Mencken

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty…

— Woodrow Wilson

This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more…

— Barack Obama

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and…

— Abraham Lincoln

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

— Samuel Adams

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

— Joseph Fouche

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

— Edmund Burke

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

— Jimmy Cliff

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

— Edward Abbey

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

— Learned Hand

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

— Anonymous

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

— Robert A. Heinlein