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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
— Wendell Phillips
and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His
— Jonathan Swift
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
— John Quincy Adams
The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
— Jesse Ventura
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
States that are built on a religious foundation limit their own people in a circle of faith and fear.
— Raif Badawi
Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.
— Claudia Gray
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
— Dalton Trumbo
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.
— Vladimir Lenin
I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
— Richard M. Nixon
On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.
— Gary Bauer
The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.
— Stefan Molyneux
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Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.
— George W. Bush
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
— Albert Einstein
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.
— Dacia Maraini
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
— Lord Acton
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
— Milton Friedman
There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.
— John Longenecker
Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.
— Rudolph Rummel
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
— Baron De Montesquieu
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
— Henry Steele Commager
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
— Walter Bagehot
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
— Allan H. Meltzer
One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.{Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll} — Clarence Darrow
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
— George Washington
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
— Mikhail Bakunin
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.
— Ronald Reagan
The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
— A.E. Samaan
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
— Alexander Herzen
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
This day would bring only one of two possible outcomes: liberty or death. I faced both with a smile on my face. The
— Tillie Cole
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
— Octavio Paz
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the ... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
— Thomas Jefferson
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.
— Gerald Bard Tjoflat
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
— Philip K. Dick
The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.
— William Henry Harrison
Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
— Stefan Molyneux
I love when girls wear print-on-print. It looks so cool.
— Liberty Ross
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?
— Neal Boortz
We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.
— Rafael Cruz
God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
— Thomas Jefferson
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?
— Ralph E. Reed Jr.
Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.
— Neil Gaiman
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.
— Henry Hazlitt
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.
— Stephen Colbert
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
— Tracie Peterson
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.
— Michael Kirby
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.
— Thomas Jefferson
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
— Samuel Adams
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
— Seneca The Younger
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
— Robert H. Jackson
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire." ~ Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
— Robert E.Lee
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future ... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
— African Spir
I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth.
— Farley Mowat
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation
— Alexander Hamilton
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
— Edith Hamilton
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
— Charlotte Bronte
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
— Margaret Thatcher
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
— John Newman
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
— Mark McKinnon
Forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
— Tracie Peterson
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
— Thomas Jefferson
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
— Daniel Radcliffe
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
— Warren E. Burger
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
— A.E. Samaan
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
— Paul Craig Roberts
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
— George Stillman Hillard
