Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
John Winthrop
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney
There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
Ramsey Clark
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Georges Jacques Danton
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it… The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow T. Wilson
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Anonymous
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams
Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die.
Robert Burns
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Jonathan Edwards
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
Thomas Jefferson
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
Aristotle
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Liberty is never free.
Anonymous
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Lloyd George
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Thomas Jefferson
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell
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