Autocracy Quote by Otto Hermann Kahn

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

— Otto Hermann Kahn

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false…

— Thaddeus Stevens

It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty…

— Alexander Hamilton

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

— Lord Acton

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command…

— Alexander Hamilton

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

— Albert Camus

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

— Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

— Clarence Darrow

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants…

— Pierre Corneille

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical…

— Jean-Paul Marat

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with…

— Thomas Jefferson