Explore Quotes on Liberty

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Is the Reformed faith opposed to human rights? Yes, very much so. It is not human rights but Divine law which is the foundation of liberty and the safeguard against tyranny. It is not something proceeding from man (rights), but something proceeding from God (revealed law) which is to order Christian society.