Advantage Quote by Algernon Sidney

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

— Benjamin Rush

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

— John Adams

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the…

— John Quincy Adams

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

— Dinesh D'Souza

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with…

— John Milton

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government…

— James Madison