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Liberty Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
- The only object of liberty is life.
- The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province…
- Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
- Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there…
- The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing…
- Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it…
- We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the…
- What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is…
- Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention…
- When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste,…
More Liberty Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton