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Liberty Quotes
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
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"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"
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"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
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"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
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"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals."
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"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
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"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."
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"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
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"From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty."
"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
"In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked."
"The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product for his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational."
"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."
"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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