Freedom Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“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

“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

“Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked power. For…

— Russell Kirk

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)”

— William Hazlitt

“A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown,…

— John Locke

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power…

— James Madison

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”

— Alexander Hamilton

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission…

— Beth Kempton

“I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand…

— H.L. Mencken