American revolution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because…

— George Orwell

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

— Lucan

“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little…

— Thomas Jefferson

“well were those that were destined to do so from the very beginning, without any help at all, while all the others were lost…

— Franz Kafka

“Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead…

— Geoffrey Wood

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most…

— Richard Henry Lee

“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

“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got themselves lost…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.”

— Graham Greene

“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.”

— Milo Hastings