Liberty Quotes · Page 85

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

— Robert Browning

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

— Camille Paglia

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

— Jim Mattis

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

— Jeffrey Rosen

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

— Eric Hoffer

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

— Thomas Paine

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their…

— Alan Keyes

The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent…

— Harry Browne

America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by…

— Ron Paul

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he…

— Simone Weil

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full…

— Charles Baudelaire

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all…

— Calvin Coolidge

The American Civil Liberties Union has a reputation for serving as a 'guardian of liberty,' protecting our privacy and the First Amendment…

— Tom Fitton

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm…

— Alexander Hamilton

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the…

— Albert Einstein

“You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical…

— Edith Wharton

“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be…

— Abraham Lincoln

That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all…

— Oren Moverman

“There's a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think…

— Andrew Klavan

“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out…

— Dalton Trumbo

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong…

— Voltaire

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours…

— Archibald MacLeish

A delusion of grandeur is when a man loses touch with reality, what do you call it when a nation loses touch…

— Nicholas Zounis

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

— William J. Brennan

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance…

— Henry David Thoreau

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

— Viktor E. Frankl

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

— Paul Harvey

America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was…

— Shaun King

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

— Immanuel Kant

“You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every…

— Robert Graves

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

— Franklin Foer

Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine

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

Count on your heart not your brain, Your heart will surely lead you to the liberty hall.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

— Benjamin Franklin