Quotes with liberty

  • They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
  • What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
  • The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
  • I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
  • Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
  • Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
  • All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
  • In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bertrand Russell Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edward Everett Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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  • George Orwell I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Eugene McCarthy The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Voltaire The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Francis Picabia A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Bainbridge Colby A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Walter Lippmann A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Seneca A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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