Liberty Quotes · Page 104

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

— Robert H. Jackson

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never…

— Learned Hand

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means…

— Ludwig von Mises

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

— Amartya Sen

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between…

— Josh Hutcherson

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

— H. L. Mencken

I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of…

— Andy Cohen

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you…

— Albert J. Nock

We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere…

— Alfred Stieglitz

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own…

— Preet Bharara

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination…

— Norman L. Eisen

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls,…

— William Wallace

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither…

— Ayn Rand

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal…

— Ron Paul

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much…

— Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed…

— Oliver Wolcott

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has…

— Benjamin Franklin

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty…

— Bartholomew Roberts

“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

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

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

— Herb Ritts

The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.

— Ainsley Earhardt

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and…

— Anonymous

O heavens! how short a time does it take to put an eternal end to a woman's liberty!

— Anonymous

Fighting corruption by improving financial transparency may be one of the most effective ways of promoting liberty around the world.

— Tom Malinowski

There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.

— John Longenecker

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to…

— Margaret Atwood

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

— Tacitus

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

— Patrick Henry

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

— Honore de Balzac

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

— John Philpot Curran

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

— Thomas Jefferson

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

— John Hampden

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

— John Lothrop Motley

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other…

— Thomas Jefferson