Liberty Quotes · Page 84

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

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

— Jim Mattis

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

— Camille Paglia

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

— Habib Bourguiba

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

— Robert Browning

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

— Jeffrey Rosen

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Thomas Paine

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is…

— William Blake

“The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then,…

— Dane Whalen

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the…

— John F. Kennedy

I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there's so much more…

— Kane

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our…

— Quico Canseco

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court…

— Alexander Hamilton

To me, privacy is nothing if not the freedom to be let alone, to experiment and to make mistakes, to forget and…

— Anonymous

Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for…

— Marvin Bower

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

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

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties…

— Barack Obama

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

— William J. Brennan

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

— Nicholas Zounis

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

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— Paul Harvey

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

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Robert Graves

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in…

— Leo Tolstoy

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

— Francois Guizot

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”—George Washington.”

— Richard Rudomanski