Liberty Quotes
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
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.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
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.
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
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.
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.
Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.
leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
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.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
