Liberty Quotes · Page 101

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

— Daniel Featley

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty

— Simon Bolivar

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

— Matt Taibbi

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

— William Cowper

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

— William Allen White

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace…

— Thomas Jefferson

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the…

— Michael Kirby

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their…

— Patrick Henry

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come…

— Angela Merkel

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want…

— Keith Urban

I say to Americans who love our country - young and old - be a radical for freedom. Be a radical for…

— Madison Cawthorn

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way…

— Vanessa Kirby

“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for…

— Albert Jay Nock

“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I think we're seeing in the wake of the last election that evangelicals - especially young evangelicals - are no longer inextricably…

— Kevin Roose

When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind…

— Randall Jarrell

Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of…

— Harrison Schmitt

I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…

— Fisher Ames

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes…

— Ayn Rand

The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .…

— Noam Chomsky

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation…

— Lyn Nofziger

“Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

— Henry Adams

“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!”

— Robert Burns

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

— Jeff Cooper

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

— Mikhail Bakunin

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

— Euripides

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

— Maria W. Stewart

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

— James Madison

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Joseph Story

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea -…

— Nathaniel Branden

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

— Abraham Lincoln