Liberty Quotes
4405 quotes by 1617 authors
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike…
— Aristotle
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's…
— Francis Bacon
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— Lord Acton
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
— F. Lee Bailey
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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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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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
— James A. Baldwin
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