Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 8
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
Liberty, as it is concieved 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 behaviour.
Mary Mccarty
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.
Thomas Jefferson
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Charles de Gaulle
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Edmund Burke
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all – liberty!
James Monroe
O Liberty…! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
The last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Dr. Viktor Emil Frankl
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
John Locke
When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
John Quincy Adams
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
Liberty has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe’er contented, never know.
William Cowper
Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die.
Robert Burns
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
Francis Wright
It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word “freedom” has no meaning.
Ben Moreell
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison
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