Liberty Quotes · Page 67

“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.”

— A.E. Samaan

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

— Hugo Black

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

— Benjamin Franklin

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

— George Savile

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth

— George Washington

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the…

— Harry Browne

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

— Khalil Gibran

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack…

— Wayne LaPierre

That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of…

— George Mason

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,…

— Ezra Stiles

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck…

— Malin Akerman

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,…

— Otto Hermann Kahn

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That…

— Maria Montessori

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority…

— William Howard Taft

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous…

— William Tecumseh Vernon

If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes…

— Thomas A. Edison

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with…

— John Stuart Mill

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my…

— Tecumseh

“One of the chief factors in progress is the destruction of special privilege. The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has…

— Teddy Roosevelt

“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race…

— Hugh Seton-Watson

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

— Herbert Spencer

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

— John Pugsley

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.

— Marine Le Pen

Big-Tech oligarchs, who silence liberty loving Patriots, have no place in the land of the free.

— Madison Cawthorn

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the…

— Wendell Phillips

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

— Woodrow Wilson

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.

— Thomas Paine

“The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you…

— Adelard of Bath

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

— George W. Bush

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

— Ron Paul

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

— Barbara Amiel

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of…

— Jimmy Carter

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

— Grigory Sanakoev

Freedom discovers you the moment you lose concern of what impression you're making or about to make.

— Bruce Lee