Liberty Quotes · Page 80

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the…

— Nelson Mandela

“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.”

— Mark Twain

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

— Albert Camus

“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may…

— Anonymous

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

— Naomi Wolf

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

— Alexander Hamilton

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

— Oscar Romero

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and…

— Ed Crane

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice,…

— Colin Kaepernick

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than…

— Tibor R. Machan

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas…

— George Eliot

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will…

— Benjamin Tucker

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit…

— Billy Graham

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this…

— Robert Jeffress

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that…

— Benjamin Tucker

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,…

— Patrick Henry

A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…

— Learned Hand

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them…

— James Monroe

Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

— H. L. Mencken

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

— John Stuart Mill

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I…

— Clarence Darrow

“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

— John Adams

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a…

— Joseph Story

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

— John Rawls

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

— Guy Standing

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

— Teresa of Avila

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may…

— George Washington

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

— Laozi

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

— John Quincy Adams