Choices Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Isaiah Berlin

Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member…

— George Washington

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to…

— Boris Yeltsin

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all…

— Paul Valery

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

— Robert Toombs

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

— Benito Mussolini

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

— Philip Wylie