Best Liberty Quotations
4405 Liberty quotes by 1536 unique authors
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
— Bono
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
— Nadia Boulanger
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
— John O. Brennan
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…
— William J. Brennan
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
— Jacob Bronowski
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role…
— Malin Akerman
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family…
— Harry Browne
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
— Harry Browne
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a…
— Harry Browne
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
— Pearl S. Buck
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
— James Buchan
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
— Pearl S. Buck
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
— Madeleine Albright
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
— Edmund Burke
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
— Edmund Burke
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without…
— Edmund Burke
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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