Aberration Quote by George Sand

“Its motto, from Figaro’s monologue in the final act of Le Mariage de Figaro, was Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n’est point d’éloge…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Ask the average American what is the salient passion in his emotional armamentarium—what is the idea that lies at the bottom of all his…

— H.L. Mencken

I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said, "I'd like…

— David Copperfield

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face,…

— Maximilien Robespierre

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for…

— John Milton

“These observations bring out the fact that, whenever liberty is regarded merely as the power to do something which it is desired to do,…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches

— Will Rogers

“the manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.”

— Timothy Snyder

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

— H. L. Mencken

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature;…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss…

— Alexander Hamilton