Liberty Quotes - page 2

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. (Lin Yutang)
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
All government, of course, is against liberty. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. View quote
Frank Herbert
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. View quote
Aristotle
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. View quote
Harriet Tubman
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. View quote
José Martí
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. (Daniel Webster)
Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. View quote
James Madison
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. View quote
James Madison
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. View quote
Andrew Jackson
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. View quote
Thomas Paine
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. (William Hazlitt)
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
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. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville