Liberty Quotes

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

~ Emma Lazarus

To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.

~ Pietro Bellusch

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

~ Viscount Samuel

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

~ Harry Weinberger

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

~ Viktor Frankl

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

~ Woodrow Wilson

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

~ Cyril James

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

~ Baron De Montesquieu

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

~ Hannah Arendt

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

~ Edmund Burke

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

~ Cicero

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

~ James Lankford

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

~ Clarence Thomas

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.

~ Francis Spufford

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

~ Rand Paul

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

~ Frank Mccourt

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

~ Al Franken

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

~ Margaret Thatcher

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

~ Rush Limbaugh

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

~ Nadia Boulanger

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

~ Steven Pinker

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

~ Honoré De Balzac

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

~ Michael Vick

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

~ Mike Pompeo

Give me liberty or give me death.

~ Patrick Henry

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

~ Ron Paul

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

~ Harriet Tubman

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

~ Isaiah Berlin

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

~ Toussaint Louverture

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville