Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas a Kempis

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Mustafa Akyol

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

John Kenneth Galbraith

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Josiah Warren

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Kofi Annan

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Tess Gerritsen

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

George Lucas

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Louisa May Alcott

Liberty must not be abused.

Louisa May Alcott

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

Jonathan Mayhew

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Jonathan Edwards

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Justin Trudeau

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

James Madison

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

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

James Madison

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

James Larkin

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

John Howard

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...

John Hancock

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Garamendi

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

John Dewey

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Joan Miro

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.