Force Quote by Benjamin Tucker

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

— John Ruskin

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

— Thomas Paine

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

“This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally…

— Wendy Brown

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

— Samuel Adams

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

— Ilana Mercer

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense;…

— Frederic Bastiat

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the…

— Thucydides

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

— Frances Wright

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives…

— John Marshall

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

— William Blackstone