Liberty Quotes · Page 21

They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of…

— Emma Goldman

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

— David K. Shipler

Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might…

— Dee Brown

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so…

— Jacques Ellul

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

— Marya Mannes

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and…

— Benjamin Rush

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so…

— Abraham Lincoln

Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…

— Algernon Sidney

I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable…

— Justin Cartwright

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human…

— Bernard Lown

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

— H. L. Mencken

Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.

— Scott Gottlieb

The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity…

— Harlan F. Stone

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness…

— John Dewey

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not…

— William Blackstone

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

— George W. Bush

Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark…

— Joseph Lewis

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's…

— Joseph Sobran

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where…

— Donald Trump

That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder…

— William Penn

“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.”

— J.Adam Snyder