Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

George Herbert

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Gary Johnson

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Gary Johnson

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Jean-Paul Marat

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

Giacomo Casanova

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Hugo Grotius

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Honore de Balzac

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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.

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?

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.

Ellen Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

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.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Ted Cruz

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Ted Cruz

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

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!