Liberty Quotes

Too much liberty corrupts us all.
Terence

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 Charles Polanyi

Truth, Interests, Sectarian

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

Fact, Nation, Lives

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
William Godwin

Men, Power, Wise

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

Life, Men, Evil

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.
David Limbaugh

Him, American, Dangerous

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe

May, Country, House

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles de Secondat

Whatever, Laws, Permit

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.
Charles de Secondat

Person, May, Same

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Frederic Bastiat

Freedom, Long, Person

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

Law, Individual, Injustice

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?
Frederic Bastiat

Education, Travel, Heart

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney

Power, Corruption, Cannot

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney

Cannot, Manners, Corrupted

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
Colin Mochrie

Give, Muffin, Bran

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
Colin Mochrie

Give, Muffin, Bran

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Frank Norris

Life, Happiness, Truth

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.
Sarah Vowell

Life, Happiness, Time

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

Negative, Write, Dangerous

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Felix Frankfurter

History, Largely, Observance

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

Life, Human, Few

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
Nellie Bly

Life, Hell, Again

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
Mahmoud Abbas

Life, Hope, Freedom

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Richard Perle

Time, United, Korea

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
Matt Drudge

Freedom, Technology, Why

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida

Freedom, Society, Put

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

Love, Change, Freedom

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Mary McCarthy

Trust, Good, Nothing

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Benjamin Tucker

Insult, Pay, Force

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti

Life, Human, Done

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