Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
~By David Lloyd George ~
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
~By Daniel Webster ~
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
~By Tony Snow ~
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
~By Paul Parker ~
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
~By Barack Obama ~
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
~By Billy Sunday ~
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.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~By Cyril Connolly ~
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
~By Matt Drudge ~
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
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.
~By Aristotle ~
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~By Ron Paul ~
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
~By Robert Walpole ~
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
~By David Hume ~
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
~By Will Durant ~
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
~By Milton Friedman ~
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
~By Phaedrus ~
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
~By William Blake ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
~By Will Durant ~
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
~By William Allen White ~
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
~By John Adams ~
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
~By Michael Novak ~
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
~By George Savile ~
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
~By Don Young ~
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
~By Robert Byrd ~
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.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
All government, of course, is against liberty.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
~By George Berkeley ~
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~By James F. Cooper ~
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
~By Joseph Howe ~
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
~By John Randolph ~
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
~By Wendell L. Wilkie ~
And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
~By John Pomfret ~
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
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.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
~By Arthur Keith ~
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
~By Thomas Day ~
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
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.
~By Wendell Willkie ~
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
~By Daniel Webster ~
As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
~By Doc Hastings ~
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
~By Kofi Annan ~
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.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
~By Plato ~
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
~By Albert Pike ~
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Where liberty is, there is my country.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
~By John Acton ~
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
~By Ben Nelson ~
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
~By Gary Johnson ~
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
~By Clive Bell ~
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