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The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
- Wilson, Woodrow T.
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Best Quotes about Liberty

1.
What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

2.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Lincoln, Abraham

3.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Madison, James

4.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Wilde, Oscar

5.
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
Asquith, Margot

6.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?
Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

7.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Goldwater, Barry

8.
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Warren, Earl

9.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Breton, Andre

10.
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus

11.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Kahn, Otto Herman

12.
Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

13.
The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
Hazlitt, William

15.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Burke, Edmund

16.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Mccarthy, Mary

17.
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders --now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.
Lewis, Wyndham

18.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
Macleish, Archibald

20.
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.
Ruskin, John

21.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Davis, Angela Y.

22.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Seneca

23.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Picabia, Francis

24.
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.
Proverb, French

25.
Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
Stedman, Captain J. G.

26.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Madison, James

27.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Jefferson, Thomas

28.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Blake, William

29.
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.
Hegel, Georg

30.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Seneca

31.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Brandeis, Louis D.

32.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Jefferson, Thomas

33.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Rogers, Will

34.
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Wylie, Philip

36.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Webster, Daniel

37.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Bakunin, Mikhail

38.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Freud, Sigmund

39.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Washington, George

40.
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Montessori, Maria

41.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
Santayana, George

42.
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Adams, John

43.
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
Schumpeter, Joseph A.

44.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
Tillotson, John

45.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Montesquieu, Charles De

46.
What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Ingersoll, Robert Green

47.
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
Burke, Edmund

48.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Adams, Henry Brooks

49.
Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.
Proverb, German

50.
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
Montesquieu, Charles De


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