Liberty Quotes - page 4

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. (Michel de Montaigne)
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. View quote
Edward Everett
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. View quote
Henry Adams
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. View quote
Milton Friedman
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. View quote
Wendell Phillips
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. View quote
Max Stirner
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. View quote
John Milton
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. (John Locke)
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. View quote
Ronald Reagan
United States: the country where liberty is a statue. View quote
Nicanor Parra
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. View quote
John Bates Clark
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
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. View quote
William Graham Sumner
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. View quote
Daniel Webster
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. (Horace Mann)
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist. View quote
John Adams
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, And that cannot be limited without being lost. View quote
Thomas Jefferson