Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Muste

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Calvin Coolidge

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Calvin Coolidge

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

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.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Eamon de Valera

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

Albert J. Nock

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Albert Camus

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous.

D. A. Carson

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

D. H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Ambrose Bierce

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Aesop

Little liberties are great offenses.

Alex Tabarrok

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

E. M. Forster

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Douglas MacArthur

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Donald T. Regan

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Dalai Lama

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.