Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

William Shakespeare

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

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?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Alexandre Vinet

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Coco Chanel

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Bruce Schneier

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Edward Abbey

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Alexander Hamilton

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Adolf Hitler

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

Abraham Lincoln

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

Ann Coulter

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Adam Smith

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Aleister Crowley

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Algernon Sidney

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Aldous Huxley

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Aldous Huxley

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.