Liberty Quotes

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell

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Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

August Bebel

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Alexander Hamilton

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

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Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

William Allen White

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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

William Wells Brown

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The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

Jo Ann Davis

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Will Durant

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

John C. Calhoun

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Theodore Roosevelt

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We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

Susan B. Anthony

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Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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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

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There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued consolidation of power in Washington, a consolidation that flies in the face of the division of power between the federal government and the states that is required by the Constitution.

Scott Pruitt

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The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Andry Rajoelina

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Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

Paul Parker

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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

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Andre Breton

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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

John Lothrop Motley

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We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

Lawrence Kudlow

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