Liberty Quotes

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

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

~ Barry Goldwater

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

~ John Tyler

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

~ Frances Wright

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

~ Dennis Prager

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

~ Nick Rahall

If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.

~ David Souter

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

~ Sayed Kashua

We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.

~ Jay Parini

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

~ David Souter

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

~ Frances Wright

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

~ Benjamin Tucker

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

~ Nick Rahall

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

~ Arthur Hugh Clough

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

~ Laurence Tribe

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

~ Snoop Dogg

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

~ Thomas Jefferson

We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

~ James Madison

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Frank Norris

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

~ Paul Ryan

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

~ Tom Stoppard

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Victoria Woodhull

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

~ James Madison

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

~ Samuel Johnson

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

~ Catharine Beecher

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.

~ Evan Mcmullin

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

~ Hồ Chí Minh

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

~ Davy Crockett

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

~ Marine Le Pen

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

~ Ronald Kessler

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

~ John Boyle O'reilly

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

~ James Madison

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

~ Benjamin Disraeli