Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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.

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

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

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 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.

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

Frank Chodorov

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Lord Acton

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...

Lord Acton

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Lord Acton

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

Ludwig Borne

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

Loretta Lynch

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

Mahatma Gandhi

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

Emile Durkheim

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Hilaire Belloc

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Henry James

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Hamid Karzai

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

John Lothrop Motley

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.