Ancient Quote by Arthur Keith

“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

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective…

— Stephen Baxter

“there are two distinct viewpoints in every republic: that of the populace and that of the elite. All the laws made in order to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn…

— John Stossel

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

— Edward Dahlberg

“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

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just,…

— John Winthrop

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are…

— Michael A. Ledeen

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

— Charles Sumner