Freedom Liberty Quotes

Freedom Liberty Quote of the day

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

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.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.