Anarchy Quote by Emma Goldman

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that…

— Frederic Bastiat

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

— John Adams

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

— Samuel Johnson

“The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread…

— Thornton Wilder

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

— Georges Pompidou

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

— James Buchanan

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

— Arthur Keith

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is…

— Samuel Johnson

Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'

— Tom Tancredo

“Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying…

— Tom Robbins

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

— Mark Steyn