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about Liberty Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis D Brandeis The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Louis D Brandeis Too much liberty corrupts us all. Terence Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Charles Caleb Colton The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognised them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. Mikhail Bakunin I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. Mikhail Bakunin Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. Isaiah Berlin The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. Wendell L Wilkie It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. Dick Cheney Constitutional liberty will be best worked out by those who aspire to freedom by their own efforts. Robert Peel The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W E B Du Bois It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed. Lenin It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. Dorothy Thompson There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. Robert G Ingersoll It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. John C Calhoun Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Edmund Burke Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...Lord Acton The truth is that men are tired of liberty. Benito Mussolini Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. William Orville Douglas It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. Felix Frankfurter Constitutional liberty will be best worked out by those who aspire to freedom by their own efforts. Robert Peel Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. Simone Weil Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. John F Kennedy Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. David Lloyd George True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. Lord Mansfield | |