Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Pope Benedict XVI

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

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.

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.

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.

Quintus Ennius

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Frank Chodorov

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

Lisa Kleypas

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

John Stuart Mill

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

John Stuart Mill

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

John Stuart Mill

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

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.

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

Edward Dahlberg

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

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.