Liberty Quotes · Page 83

“Périssent les colonies si elles nous en coûtent l'honneur, la liberté. (Perish the colonies if they cost us Honor, Liberty.)”

— Maximilien de Robespierre

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

— Charlotte Bronte

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…

— Herbert Spencer

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

— Thomas Guthrie

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such…

— Richard Lovelace

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

— H. P. Blavatsky

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

— John Anderson

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

— Ayn Rand

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary…

— Rory Bremner

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is…

— Marine Le Pen

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the…

— John Quincy Adams

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…

— Aldous Huxley

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything…

— Alexander Hamilton

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop…

— Bernard Bailyn

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort…

— George Santayana

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only…

— Vaclav Havel

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every…

— Frederic Bastiat

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on…

— Earl Warren

It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and…

— George W. Bush

I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to…

— Shepard Fairey

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet…

— Isabelle Eberhardt

We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a…

— Joseph Muscat

Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the…

— Larry Elder

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a…

— William Borah

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons

— Ron Paul

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but…

— Mark Twain

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power…

— Francis Bacon

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

— David McCullough

Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.

— Dave Rubin

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

— Anthony Gregory

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of…

— Victoria Woodhull

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~…

— Lisa Kleypas

“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of…

— John Milton

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

— Mitt Romney

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

— Lord Acton

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

— Frederic Bastiat

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want…

— Anonymous

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

— Mikhail Bakunin