Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Mark Twain

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Marquis de Lafayette

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Michael Sandel

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Frank Murphy

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Christopher Gadsden

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

James Madison

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Ellen Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Emile Durkheim

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Hilaire Belloc

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Hilaire Belloc

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Henry Ward Beecher

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Henry Ward Beecher

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

Henry James

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty and equality are magical words.