Famous Quotes & Sayings

William E. Gladstone

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Wendell Willkie

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

William O. Douglas

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

William O. Douglas

What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

I have no idea what is in the Liberty portfolio.

Joseph Addison

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

John Adams

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Jacob Bronowski

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Hartley Coleridge

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

Henry A. Kissinger

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Henry Hazlitt

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

Henry Hazlitt

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Malcolm X

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Malcolm X

It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!

Malcolm X

Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Mahatma Gandhi

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Mahatma Gandhi

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

John Adams

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

John Adams

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

John Adams

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

James H. Douglas

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Friedrich August von Hayek

At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.

Friedrich August von Hayek

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.