Liberty Quotations | Page 5

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

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.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

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.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to Liberty.

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

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.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

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.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

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.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

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.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

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.

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.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge.

When you've had a group like we've had, you can kind of have some liberty about adjusting quickly and knowing that it's going to be done with discipline,

Whether we will have ever increasing protections for human liberty and dignity, or whether those protections will be diminished.

We're going to take them to the Liberty Bell, ... We're going to take them to football games and baseball games.

What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

We're really excited about working with Liberty Media and their properties.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.