Liberty Quotes · Page 98

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

— Charles Slack

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

— Benjamin Franklin

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

— Patricia Schroeder

Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.

— Kiran Bedi

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.

— George Washington

The national coronavirus response has been a radical experiment on the American people that destroyed our economy and harmed our liberty.

— Tom Fitton

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other…

— Anonymous

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in…

— George W. Bush

This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be…

— Frank I. Cobb

I believe that in America, freedom and individual liberty will, in the end, always triumph over class division and collectivism with voters…

— Robert C. O'Brien

The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof…

— William Pitt

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be…

— George W. Bush

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and…

— Elbert Hubbard

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no…

— John Stuart Mill

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is…

— Huey Newton

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public…

— Jason Epstein

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against…

— Alexander Hamilton

Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,…

— Ludwig von Mises

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and…

— Brendan Fraser

He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church…

— Pope Gregory XVI

You go back and you examine the reasons America was founded, why it worked, what was magic about it, and you find…

— Rush Limbaugh

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

— Federica Montseny

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

— Thomas Sowell

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

— Jack Hyles

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

— John Adams

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

— Virginia Foxx

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

— James Madison

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

— Fred Korematsu

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.”

— Allama Iqbal

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

— Ras Kass

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

— Paul Craig Roberts

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

— John Locke

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty…

— Michael Bloomberg