Liberty Quotes · Page 88

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

— Laozi

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development…

— Erich Fromm

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

— Ludwig von Mises

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

— Donald T. Regan

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

— Bruce Lee

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin

“Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. (about her sister)”

— Charlotte Brontë

Because my mother chose life, we know that in this nation, this nation that is based on life, liberty and the pursuit…

— Mark Robinson

As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for…

— Edward Kennedy

“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to…

— Altiero Spinelli

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over…

— Vladimir Lenin

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will…

— James Madison

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are…

— Thomas Sowell

Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…

— Thomas Jefferson

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction…

— Herbert Marcuse

Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we…

— Benjamin Franklin

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.'…

— Dennis Prager

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

— Isabelle Eberhardt

I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that…

— Lajos Kossuth

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens…

— William Jennings Bryan

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war…

— Patrick Henry

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon…

— John Hancock

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

— David Blunkett

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

— Benjamin Franklin

“There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery…

— Dalton Trumbo

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

— Gustave de Molinari

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

— Richard Francis Burton

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

— William Hazlitt

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

— John Ruskin

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

“Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

— Eric Hoffer

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to…

— Anna Quindlen

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

— Aldous Huxley

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

— Woody Allen

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

— Marya Mannes

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

— Dennis Prager

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up…

— Ron Paul