Quotes on Liberty

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Only powerful people have liberty.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.