Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
Berthold Auerbach
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Baron de Montesquieu
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas Jefferson
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity of bondage.
Cato
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Edmund Burke
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
Walter Lippman
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.
Learned Hand
Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John Adams
Liberty is always unfinished business.
American Civil Liberties Union
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, – Necessity and Free Will.
Thomas Carlyle
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Anonymous
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will Durant
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
Liberty is the opportunity to make decisions…
Kenneth Hildebrand
There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
You have liberty when you’re easy in your harness.
Robert Frost
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
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