Liberty Quotes

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

To change masters is not to be free.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

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

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.