Liberty Quotes

• I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Judge
  • Act
  • Canada

• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Strength
  • Independence

• Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Remember
  • Enemy
  • Libertarian

• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  

  Islom Karimov
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Mankind

• The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Things
  • Liberty

• The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Liberty
  • Democrat
  • Defends

• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Power
  • Remember

• The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Republicans

• The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Fight
  • Kings
  • Cause

• The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

  

  George Will
  • War
  • Justice
  • Politics

• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Destiny
  • Republican

• If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Done
  • Judging
  • Rejection

• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Law
  • Obedience
  • Oneself

• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Slavery

• We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Introducing

• To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • King

• The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • World
  • Games

• Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • Responsibility
  • Religious
  • Moral

• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Memories

• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  

  Bill Milkowski
  • Fashion
  • Guitarists
  • Compositions

• Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Education
  • Habits
  • Rulers

• Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

  

  William E. Simon
  • Economic
  • Contradiction
  • Absolutes

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