Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 9
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
Terence
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
T.S. Eliot
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
James Arthur Baldwin
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis Bacon
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same name-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable names-liberty and tyranny.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Euripides
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This young century will be liberty’s century.
George W. Bush
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow T. Wilson
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
John Quincy Adams
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John Calhoun
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida
Liberty, equality — bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
Bishop Joseph Butler
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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