Explore Quotes on Liberty

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured_x000D_by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

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.

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

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.

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

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?