Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
It is not our frowning battlements…or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land….Our defence is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
Liberty is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Nietzsche
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
David Herbert Lawrence
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.
Josiah Warren
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
John Acton
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D.H. Lawrence
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
William Cowper
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mohandas Gandhi
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren
Liberty is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty is the soul’s right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
Montesquieu
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence Seward Darrow
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Mary McCarthy
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Annie Besant
Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
Miguel de Cervantes
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