Insolent Quote by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

— George Savile

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

— Anonymous

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves

— Hugo Grotius

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

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

— Alan Keyes

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

— Anonymous

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

— John Major

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

— David Hume

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