Quotes on Liberty

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

Half the truth is often a great lie.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.