Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Markham

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Barry Goldwater

And if I should be accused of neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice

Barbara Amiel

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Barbara Amiel

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Barbara Amiel

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

William Shakespeare

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

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.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Frederic Bastiat

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

Frederic Bastiat

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

Frederic Bastiat

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

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.

Frederic Bastiat

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Dennis Chavez

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?