“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, 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
“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.”
― Ahmed Zewail
“Everybody in the world is – is ready for liberty. It’s a question of how you do it.”
― Ahmed Zewail
“What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.”
― Ahmed Zewail
“The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers – one that would protect Americans’ liberty at all times – both in war, and in peace.”
― Al Franken
“’Liberal’ is a great word – from the root, ‘liberty,’ which means free.”
― Alan Colmes
“There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that guns protect liberty.”
― Alan Dershowitz
“I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.”
― Albert Camus
“The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.”
― Albert Pike
“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
― Aldous Huxley
“Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”
― Alexander Hamilton
“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.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
“If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.”
― Algernon Sidney
“Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.”
― Algernon Sidney
“Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed… to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.”
― Algernon Sidney
“The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.”
― Algernon Sidney
“This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.”
― Algernon Sidney
“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
― Ambrose Bierce
“There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.”
― Andre Breton
“There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
― Andrew Jackson
“The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.”
― Andry Rajoelina
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
― Anne Baxter
“It is very exciting to have the opportunity to return to the East Coast and join the Liberty family.”
― Anne Donovan
“Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.”
― Antonio de Mendoza
“We are as great as our belief in human liberty – no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”
― Archibald MacLeish
“The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”
― Arthur Hugh Clough
“In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.”
― Arthur Keith
“The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.”
― Arthur Keith
“It’s not exactly under the radar, but when I’m in London, I love to visit Liberty. It’s my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.”
― Ashley Madekwe
“Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.”
― August Bebel
“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
― B. R. Ambedkar
“America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.”
― Bainbridge Colby
“A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.”
― Bainbridge Colby
“When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.”
― Barbara Amiel
“The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.”
― Barbara Amiel
“All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.”
― Barbara Amiel
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
― Barry Goldwater
“Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.”
― Ben Domenech
“The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.”
― Ben Domenech
“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.”
― Ben Nelson
“When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation – namely, life, liberty and justice for all.”
― Benazir Bhutto
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Where liberty is, there is my country.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.”
― Benjamin Rush
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”
― Benjamin Tucker
“Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.”
― Benjamin Tucker
“The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.”
― Benjamin Tucker
“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.”
― Benjamin Tucker
“If the ‘enemy combatant’ cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.”
― Benjamin Wittes
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
― Bertrand Russell
“Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”
― Bertrand Russell
“I’m a Libertarian. I’m liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.”
― Big Boi
“Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.”
― Bill Cunningham
“I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.”
― Billy Sunday
“Personal liberty is not personal license.”
― Billy Sunday
“I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.”
― Bob Hope
“Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.”
― Bono
“There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties – hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.”
― Bret Stephens
“Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.”
― Brett Kavanaugh
“Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.”
― Bryant H. McGill
“How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.”
― Burl Ives
“I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.”
― Buzz Aldrin
“Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.”
― Caleb Cushing
“As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.”
― Catharine Beecher
“There can be no liberty without the law.”
― Cecil B. DeMille
“Liberty is the most important thing.”
― Cenk Uygur
“No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world’s affairs.”
― Cesare Beccaria
“If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.”
― Cesare Beccaria
“Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.”
― Charles B. Rangel
“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
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.”
― Charles Evans Hughes
“While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.”
― Charles Evans Hughes
“The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.”
― Charles Kennedy
“There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.”
― Charlie Pierce
“Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate – such as facilitating interstate commerce – to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.”
― Chris Gibson
“Americans cherish our liberty and don’t want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.”
― Christine Pelosi
“I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.”
― Christopher Gadsden
“It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.”
― Chuck Schumer
“Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!”
― Colin Mochrie
“Give me liberty or a bran muffin!”
― Colin Mochrie
“When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.”
― Cristela Alonzo
“For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?”
― Cyril Connolly
“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.”
― D. H. Lawrence
“What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.”
― Dan Webster
“If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.”
― Dana Loesch
“I view it as a threat to my and my family’s well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.”
― Dana Loesch
“Liberty is never fully paid off, and to be deserving of it, one must be willing to fight for it on the battlefield, in the halls of Congress, by involving yourselves in your communities. Such a struggle is not a burden, it is a privilege.”
― Dana Loesch
“Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.”
― Daniel Gillies
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
― Daniel Webster
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
― Daniel Webster
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
― Daniel Webster
“We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.”
― Daniel Webster
“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
― Daniel Webster
“We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.”
― Darryl Glenn
“It really is this: you are either for liberty, you’re for freedom, and you’re for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else’s rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.”
― Dave Rubin
“Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.”
― Dave Rubin
“I’ve always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.”
― David Antin
“As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being ‘tough’; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.”
― David Blunkett
“I support liberty; I support true freedom.”
― David Draiman
“Ultimately, I’m about liberty and I think you have to defend it.”
― David Hockney
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”
― David Hume
“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
― David Lloyd George
“Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.”
― David Lloyd George
“We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.”
― David Souter
“I remain mindful that the role of a judge is a limited one and that judges can’t solve every problem. But at the same time, judges play a crucial role in safeguarding liberty and protecting the rights of all citizens.”
― David Stras
“Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”
― Davy Crockett
“Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.”
― Denis Kearney
“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
― Dennis Prager
“American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.”
― Dennis Prager
“What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there’s something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.”
― Derek Walcott
“The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming.”
― Derrick Grayson
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
― Dick Cheney
“Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world – it was complicated to express myself.”
― Dimitri Payet
“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.”
― Dorothy Thompson
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.”
― Dorothy Thompson
“Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn’t believe any of it anymore.”
― Doug Henning
“The Union – It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.”
― Duff Green
“Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”
― Earl Warren
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.”
― Earl Warren
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
― Edmund Burke
“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
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
― Edmund Burke
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
― Edmund Burke
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
― Edmund Burke
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
― Edmund Burke
“Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.”
― Edmund Morgan
“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”
― Edmund Spenser
“The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.”
― Edward Dahlberg
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
― Edward Everett
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
― Edward Gibbon
“’Liberty Brass’ is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.”
― Edward Hirsch
“When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.”
― Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
“America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.”
― Edwin Meese
“As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, ‘What a wonderful country.’”
― Elaine Chao
“When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.”
― Elaine Chao
“Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.”
― Ellen Key
“Social motherliness has made women’s struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.”
― Ellen Key
“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”
― Emil Cioran
“The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.”
― Emily Greene Balch
“Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.”
― Eric Metaxas
“It’s a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country’s chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution – and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died – is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.”
― Eric Metaxas
“The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.”
― Ernest Renan
“But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.”
― Eugenio Montale
“I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are ‘hostile to liberty,’ as I like to say.”
― Evan McMullin
“It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.”
― Ezra Stiles
“The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.”
― Federica Montseny
“Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.”
― Felipe VI of Spain
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”
― Felix Frankfurter
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
― Felix Frankfurter
“The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.”
― Ferdinand Marcos
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.”
― Fisher Ames
“Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.”
― Florence Ellinwood Allen
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
― Frances Wright
“But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?”
― Frances Wright
“It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.”
― Frances Wright
“Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others – we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others – unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.”
― Frances Wright
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
― Francis Picabia
“France has been struck on the day of her national holiday – the 14th of July, Bastille Day – the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.”
― Francois Hollande
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert
“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright
“Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.”
― Franklin Foer
“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”
― Franz Kafka
“Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?”
― Frederic Bastiat
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
― Frederic Bastiat
“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?”
― Frederic Bastiat
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
― Frederic Bastiat
“Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.”
― Frederic William Farrar
“’Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
― Friedrich August von Hayek
“What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.”
― Fritz Kreisler
“The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.”
― Gary Johnson
“The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.”
― Georg Buchner
“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.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.”
― George Berkeley
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
― George Berkeley
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
― George Orwell
“Religious liberty doesn’t include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.”
― George Pataki
“When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.”
― George Savile
“This young century will be liberty’s century.”
― George W. Bush
“Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.”
― George W. Romney
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
― George Washington
“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
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
― George Washington
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
― George Washington
“Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.”
― George William Curtis
“Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.”
― Giordano Bruno
“You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.”
― Gore Vidal
“If you’re so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you’re a Republican. If you’re kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you’re a Democrat.”
― Grover Norquist
“In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.”
― Gunnar Myrdal
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
― H. L. Mencken
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
― H. L. Mencken
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
― H. L. Mencken
“Where liberty dies, evil grows.”
― Hamid Karzai
“Life without Liberty is far worse than death.”
― Hamid Karzai
“I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.”
― Hanoi Hannah
“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.”
― Harriet Tubman
“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”
― Harriet Tubman
“For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.”
― Harry Browne
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
― Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.”
― Henri Frederic Amiel
“I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.”
― Henry A. Wise
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
― Henry Adams
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.”
― Henry Knox
“Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.”
― Herbert Marcuse
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”
― Hermann Hesse
“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.”
― Ho Chi Minh
“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority – literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.”
― Ignazio Silone
“The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted.”
― Ira Glasser
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
― Isaiah Berlin
“Liberty means more to me than life itself.”
― Jack Kevorkian
“Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican.”
― Jack Schlossberg
“Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.”
― James Buchan
“My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly… I’m referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.”
― James Dobson
“I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.”
― James H. Douglas, Jr.
“Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.”
― James Lankford
“It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.”
― James Lankford
“Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.”
― James Larkin
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
― James Madison
“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?”
― James Madison
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
― James Madison
“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
― James Madison
“A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.”
― James Madison
“The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.”
― James Madison
“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
“Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all – liberty!”
― James Monroe
“Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.”
― James Otis
“Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.”
― James Q. Wilson
“I put on about 20 pounds to play Washington, and that was really enjoyable. That’s probably the most fun I’ve had preparing for a role. There were only two weeks between ‘Sons of Liberty’ wrapping and ‘Complications’ starting, so I had, basically, two weeks to drop 20 pounds, and that was the opposite of fun.”
― Jason O’Mara
“It’s very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you’re representing is often a crook.”
― Jed S. Rakoff
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.”
― Jeffrey Tambor
“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”
― Jeremy Bentham
“Like other universities do, Liberty hosts a number of events for outside organizations, businesses, and schools simply because we have the facilities that can accommodate them. It is a form of community service by Liberty and, because we are centrally located in the state, our campus is a good option for state events.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty’s concealed carry policy.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty and the dignity of the unborn. Mrs. Clinton promises she will not.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“Liberty University is the world’s largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“Wouldn’t it be something if Liberty’s votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?”
― Jerry Falwell, Jr.
“Liberty is security. Freedom is security.”
― Jesse Ventura
“Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.”
― Joe Lonsdale
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
― John Adams
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”
― John Adams
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
― John Adams
“It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent – even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.”
― John C. Calhoun
“There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.”
― John C. Calhoun
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
― John C. Calhoun
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others.”
― John Dalberg-Acton
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
― John Dalberg-Acton
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
― John Dalberg-Acton
“We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God’s commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.”
― John Frame
“All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
― John Locke
“The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.”
― John Lothrop Motley
“The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.”
― John Marshall
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
― John Philpot Curran
“For scholarship – if it is to be scholarship – requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.”
― John Polanyi
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
― John Ruskin
“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”
― John Stuart Mill
“They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”
― John Tillotson
“Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.”
― John Tyler
“All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.”
― John Wayne
“Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.”
― John Winthrop
“Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.”
― Joichi Ito
“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
― Jon Stewart
“Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.”
― Jonathan Mayhew
“There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.”
― Jonathan Mayhew
“People don’t seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it’s there to protect individual liberty – it’s there to protect us from the concentration of power.”
― Jonathan Turley
“I’ve had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I’ve been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.”
― Jordan Rodgers
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.”
― Jose Marti
“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.”
― Jose Marti
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
― Jose Marti
“It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.”
― Jose Marti
“While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.”
― Jose Rizal
“Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.”
― Josh Hawley
“The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status.”
― Josh Hawley
“Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.”
― Josiah Strong
“Liberty is worth paying for.”
― Jules Verne
“We don’t really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.”
― Julian Fellowes
“I’ve flown out of character so many times. In that sense I’ve been lucky, because I’ve been given the liberty to do just about anything I’ve wanted to do in my lifetime.”
― June Carter Cash
“The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.”
― Junius
“I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal.”
― Justin Cartwright
“I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there’s so much more than that. For me, it’s about liberty versus authoritarianism.”
― Kane
“Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
― Karin Slaughter
“Government has gotten too big, and it’s infringed on our liberty and freedom.”
― Kathy Szeliga
“We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.”
― Kay Bailey Hutchison
“Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.”
― Kay Granger
“I don’t feel I’m at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That’s not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.”
― Kenneth C. Griffin
“If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.”
― Kevin Hassett
“Let eternal vigilance be the price of liberty and integrity of the country hereafter.”
― Kiran Bedi
“If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.”
― Kofi Annan
“Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?”
― Krzysztof Kieslowski
“There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.”
― Laurence Tribe
“We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.”
― Lawrence Kudlow
“We got our freedom and our liberty from the Creator, from God. That is a lesson conservatives have to remember.”
― Lawrence Kudlow
“The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.”
― Learned Hand
“Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
― Leonard Boswell
“They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.”
― Lorenzo Snow
“The power to arrest – to deprive a citizen of liberty – must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.”
― Loretta Lynch
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
― Louis D. Brandeis
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.”
― Louis D. Brandeis
“The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.”
― Ludwig Borne
“Our religious liberty was threatened by the Obama administration as part of the Obamacare law. I was in the courtroom when that law was, I think unjustly, held constitutional.”
― Luther Strange
“The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.”
― Lysander Spooner
“If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.”
― Maajid Nawaz
“To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.”
― Madeleine Albright
“It’s an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.”
― Malala Yousafzai
“I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It’s a creative liberty that I love.”
― Malin Akerman
“I am completely a director’s actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.”
― Manisha Koirala
“There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.”
― Marcus Garvey
“Empire and liberty.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”
― Margaret Thatcher
“We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.”
― Marine Le Pen
“The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.”
― Marine Le Pen
“The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people’s legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.”
― Marine Le Pen
“Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.”
― Mark McKinnon
“Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall one day have the felicity of seeing it established in our beloved country.”
― Marquis de Lafayette
“I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.”
― Marquis de Lafayette
“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.”
― Marquis de Sade
“The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.”
― Marsha Blackburn
“Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one’s own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.”
― Marvin Ammori
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu
“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?”
― Matt Drudge
“A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.”
― Mercy Otis Warren
“NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.”
― Michael Badnarik
“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.”
― Michael Badnarik
“The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.”
― Michael Ignatieff
“The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.”
― Michael Novak
“With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.”
― Michael Reagan
“Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.”
― Miguel de Cervantes
“We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.”
― Mike Pence
“What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.”
― Mike Pence
“Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.”
― Mike Pompeo
“Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”
― Mikhail Bakunin
“The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.”
― Mikhail Bakunin
“Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty – by ceasing to exist.”
― Mikhail Bakunin
“I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.”
― Mikhail Sholokhov
“Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?”
― Mitch McConnell
“President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.”
― Mitt Romney
“The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.”
― Mohamed ElBaradei
“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.”
― Montesquieu
“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.”
― Montesquieu
“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”
― Montesquieu
“Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.”
― Montesquieu
“The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals that it is supposed to be defending.”
― Murray Rothbard
“What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.”
― Mustafa Akyol
“Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.”
― Mustafa Akyol
“A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.”
― Nadia Boulanger
“Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren’t very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it’s about stock options.”
― Nathan Myhrvold
“The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea – and the idea was liberty.”
― Nathaniel Branden
“There’s an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don’t often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick
“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”
― Neil MacGregor
“Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.”
― Nostradamus
“Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem’s all with each verse he writes.”
― Octavio Paz
“A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.”
― Oliver Ellsworth
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.”
― Oliver Ellsworth
“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.”
― Otto Hermann Kahn
“As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.”
― Otto Hermann Kahn
“The Pledge of Allegiance says, ‘liberty and justice for all’.”
― Patricia Schroeder
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
― Patrick Henry
“I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.”
― Paul Craig Roberts
“While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.”
― Paul P. Harris
“Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.”
― Paul P. Harris
“Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.”
― Paul Parker
“We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.”
― Paul Ryan
“Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.”
― Paul Singer
“I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.”
― Phaedrus
“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”
― Philip Wylie
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― Plato
“Liberty isn’t liberalism, arbitrariness, but it’s connected; it’s conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.”
― Pope Benedict XVI
“In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.”
― Potter Stewart
“We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies – not to mention their own liberty – at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.”
― Preet Bharara
“There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.”
― Quico Canseco
“But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.”
― Ralph Adams Cram
“I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.”
― Rand Paul
“The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.”
― Rand Paul
“Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.”
― Rebecca Solnit
“When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.”
― Remo D’Souza
“Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.”
― Richard Baxter
“As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.”
― Richard Dawkins
“You gotta love the names. They’re so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.”
― Richard Engel
“In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.”
― Richard Perle
“I’m a religious liberty supporter – I strongly believe in that.”
― Rob Portman
“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.”
― Robert Byrd
“In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country’s territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe.”
― Robert Dallek
“Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“The more liberty you give away the more you will have.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“Liberty is the breath of progress.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll
“We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.”
― Robert Jackson
“Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.”
― Robert Kennedy
“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.”
― Robert Walpole
“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.”
― Robert Walpole
“In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.”
― Robert Zubrin
“Realizing that they can’t get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can’t get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.”
― Rod Parsley
“I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.”
― Roger Nash Baldwin
“When you’re allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that’s a precedent that can be used.”
― Ron DeSantis
“The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.”
― Ron Fournier
“I’ve worked as grocery store cashier; I’ve worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while.”
― Ron Funches
“I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.”
― Ron Johnson
“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
“Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.”
― Ron Paul
“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.”
― Ron Paul
“Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.”
― Ron Paul
“The colonists’ first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.”
― Ronald Kessler
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
― Ronald Reagan
“When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.”
― Rory Bremner
“I don’t have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.”
― Rumaan Alam
“One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.”
― Rush Limbaugh
“The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.”
― Russell Pearce
“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.”
― Ryszard Kapuscinski
“The higher your station, the less your liberty.”
― Sallust
“Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.”
― Sallust
“There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.”
― Sam Houston
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
― Samuel Adams
“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
“By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.”
― Samuel Chase
“Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”
― Samuel Gompers
“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.”
― Samuel Hopkins
“The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.”
― Samuel Schmid
“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
― Sarah Fielding
“Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.”
― Sayed Kashua
“I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.”
― Scott Pruitt
“The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn’t that they are so distrustful of their government? They’re afraid they’ll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.”
― Sharron Angle
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
― Sigmund Freud
“Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.”
― Stanley Hauerwas
“It’s important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.”
― Stephen Breyer
“To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.”
― Stephen Breyer
“We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.”
― Susan B. Anthony
“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty – of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”
― Susan Sontag
“’Luncheon of the Boating Party,’ owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.”
― Susan Vreeland
“We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.”
― Ted Cruz
“The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.”
― Ted Cruz
“Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.”
― Ted Cruz
“I’m incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.”
― Ted Yoho
“We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.”
― Terence
“Too much liberty corrupts us all.”
― Terence
“Back in 2010, it didn’t matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks’ wilfully negligent data dumps.”
― Terry Glavin
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.”
― Thomas Aquinas
“It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.”
― Thomas Clarkson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
― Thomas Paine
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
― Thomas Paine
“The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.”
― Timothy Garton Ash
“Of course it’s why you want to become a writer – because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.”
― Tobias Wolff
“Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.”
― Tom G. Palmer
“Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.”
― Tom Rachman
“Conservatism as a formal political doctrine didn’t exist in America in 1940. The word ‘conservative’ was associated primarily with fringe groups – anti-industrial Southern agrarians and the anti-New Deal tycoons who led the Liberty League.”
― Tom Reiss
“Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.”
― Tom Ridge
“It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.”
― Tom Stoppard
“Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’”
― Tom Tancredo
“And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.”
― Tony Blair
“Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.”
― Tony Snow
“Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.”
― Tony Snow
“I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.”
― Toussaint Louverture
“The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.”
― Toussaint Louverture
“The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.”
― Toussaint Louverture
“When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.”
― Umberto Eco
“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
― Victor Hugo
“When liberty returns, I will return.”
― Victor Hugo
“Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.”
― Victor Hugo
“My hairdresser loves me because he gets the liberty to get creative with my hair.”
― Vikrant Massey
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
“For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.”
― Virgil Goode
“Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind’s right.”
― Virginia Foxx
“We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.”
― Virginia Foxx
“It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
― W. E. B. Du Bois
“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.”
― Walter Annenberg
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
― Wendell Phillips
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
― Wendell Phillips
“I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.”
― Wesley Snipes
“Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society’s worst actors.”
― Wil Wheaton
“I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.”
― Wilfrid Laurier
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”
― Will Durant
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.”
― Will Durant
“As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.”
― Will Durant
“Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
― Will Rogers
“Liberty is the only thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.”
― William Allen White
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.”
― William Blackstone
“Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.”
― William Dean Howells
“He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound… to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.”
― William Godwin
“Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.”
― William Graham Sumner
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
― William Hazlitt
“This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.”
― William Jennings Bryan
“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”
― William Lloyd Garrison
“If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.”
― William Lloyd Garrison
“I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.”
― William Scott
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
― Woodrow Wilson
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