Character Quote by Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness,…

— Edmund Burke

“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.”

— Alistair Cooke 'America

“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.”

— Milo Hastings

“Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.”

— Dave Champion

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the…

— Friedrich Hayek

“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty…

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

“Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;”

— George Crile

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Perfect Liberty follows no rules, law, or any virtue for that matter. It disregards respect, courteousness, and love.”

— Veronica Mist

“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.”

— George Washington