Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Liberty is not enough.

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.

Hilaire Belloc

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Henry Ward Beecher

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Henry Ward Beecher

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, 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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only object of liberty is life.

John Marshall

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....

John Lothrop Motley

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

John Locke

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Cass Sunstein

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Chang-Rae Lee

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.