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Liberty Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
- By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the…
- Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a…
- There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
- He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
- My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the…
- Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it…
- I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it,…
- As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own…
- The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
- Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.
- The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands -…
- Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
- Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with…
- Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
- Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value…
- If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that,…
- Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
- I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself,…
- What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul…
- I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they…
- There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
- Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
- If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first…
- Liberty is the breath of progress.
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