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Liberty Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
- Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
- 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…
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally…
- The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
- People fear witches, and burn women.
- The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.
- Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .…
- The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights…
- No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
- Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of…
- We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would…
- At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them…
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the…
- What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through…
- Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other,…
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- 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