Liberty Quotes
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.
William Cobbett
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
John G. Diefenbaker
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Fiorello LaGuardia
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
William Lewis Trogdon
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
Sam Ervin
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
William Shakespeare
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Rand Paul
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
Herbert Spencer
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.
Vladimir Bukovsky
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
Yvette Clarke
