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Liberty Quotes by Will Durant
- When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
- Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom…
- The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in…
- An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give…
- Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
- Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that…
- In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product…
- When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
- As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
- Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
- Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
- It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large…
- When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
- Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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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
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- 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