Contemporary Quote by Edward Abbey

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

— Katherine Anne Porter

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

— Abraham Lincoln

This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver…

— Frank I. Cobb

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power…

— James Madison

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

— John Basil Barnhill

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

— George Bernard Shaw

You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence,…

— Gustav Landauer

We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and…

— David Ignatius

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

— Mignon McLaughlin

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

— John Major