Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 7
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. McGill
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Nadia Boulanger
Give me liberty to know, to think, to believe, and utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties.
John Milton
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say:” This is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster
History teaches us that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Thurgood Marshall
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, “I have it,” merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Benjamin Franklin
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
None can love liberty heartily but good men; the rest love not liberty, but license.
John Milton
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Billy Sunday
One’s liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
Frederick Farrar
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
Edmund Burke
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Terence
Liberty is worth paying for.
Jules Verne
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin
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