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Liberty Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only…
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble…
- The less government we have the better.
- Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
- If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
- A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
- Liberty is a slow fruit.
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
- We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed…
- We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with…
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
- The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
- The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
- These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in…
- There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not…
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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