Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Herbert Marcuse

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Hanoi Hannah

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

Harry Browne

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

Imran Khan

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

It will also move people to Crosby, Dayton, Liberty and Beaumont like it was originally designed.

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

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.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Quintus Ennius

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

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.

George Lucas

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

Hamid Karzai

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only object of liberty is life.

John Marshall

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create....

John Lothrop Motley

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

John Locke

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

John Kenneth Galbraith

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Joseph Sobran

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Joseph Stalin

The United States should get rid of its militias.