Balance Quote by James F. Cooper

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just,…

— John Winthrop

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the…

— Mary McCarthy

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as…

— John Dewey

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They…

— H. L. Mencken

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom…

— Rudy Giuliani

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot…

— Edmund Burke

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government…

— James Madison

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to…

— John Adams

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in…

— Fisher Ames