Acting Quote by Voltaire

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

— Cyril Connolly

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

— John Adams

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Individual liberty is individual power.

— John Quincy Adams

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

— James Madison

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything…

— George Orwell

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”—George Washington.”

— Richard Rudomanski

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its…

— John Quincy Adams

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

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

— Herbert Marcuse

“liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion”

— Anonymous