Liberty Quotes · Page 91

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black.…

— Marilyn French

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless…

— Gore Vidal

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and…

— Herman Melville

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

— Baron Goodman Arnold Goodman

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

— Benjamin Franklin

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of…

— Paul Ryan

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their…

— Earl Warren

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects…

— Gene Sharp

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits…

— Dan Quayle

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not…

— Sallust

“I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind…

— Dave Champion

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of…

— Edmund Burke

Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of…

— Richard Cobden

A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To…

— Joey Tempest

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given…

— Robert Conquest

Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size…

— Paul Blanshard

“SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”

— A.E. Samaan

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

— Thomas Jefferson

What could be more satisfying for an actor than having the liberty to select and do the work of his choice.

— Ranvir Shorey

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

— Richard Baxter

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

— David Barton

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all…

— Margaret Thatcher

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

— William Ernest Hocking

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

— Will Rogers

“The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.”

— Michel Templet

“Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”

— Albert E. Bowen

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

— Julian Bond

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher