Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 12
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
George Berkeley
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
George Berkeley
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
Robert J. McCracken
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
A society will remain as free or as enslaved as the conscious dispositions of individuals determine it shall be. Just as the roots of oppression are found in passivity, the foundations of our liberty reside in highly energized and focused minds that insist upon their independence. There are no shortcuts, no structures or doctrines that can be erected, no hallowed documents to be revered, to save us the effort of continually challenging those who would presume to exercise authority over our lives.
Butler Shaffer
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Holmes Davis
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Cyril James
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
Ronald Reagan
Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained.
James Abram Garfield
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russel Lowell
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Adams
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Thomas Paine
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law….
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Lord Macaulay
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington
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