Human Liberty Quotes
34 quotes by 27 authors
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
— Mark Twain
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The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
— John C. Calhoun
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What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
— William Butler Yeats
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In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies…
— Sean Lemass
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The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization.
— Henry Hazlitt
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Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet…
— Frederick Douglass
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Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to…
— Simon Greenleaf
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they…
— Stephen Harper
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There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation…
— Warren G. Harding
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The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and…
— George W. Bush
Who Wrote These Human Liberty Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 34 Human Liberty Quotes, led by these top contributors: