Liberty Quotes - Page 22

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.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

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.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

Individuality is freedom lived.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.