Liberty
Definition: Liberties: plural noun. The state of being free within society from
oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behaviour, or political views.
Number of Quotes: 25
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must
leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams
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
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men are groaning in abject Slavery. This
is called the land of the free and the home of the brave
; it is called the asylum of the oppressed
; and some have been foolish enough to call
it the Cradle of Liberty.
If it is the cradle of liberty,
they have rocked the child to death. It is dead long since, and yet we talk about
democracy and republicanism, while one-sixth of our countrymen are clanking their chains upon the very soil which our fathers moistened with their blood.
William Wells Brown
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so
where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity,
our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating.
Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of
Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly
Adieu to Liberty! Adieu to Fame!
For other gifts, for softer joys I pine;
In one fair breast I wish a mutual flame,
In one fair breast alone to burn with mine.
George Crabbe
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law,
no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Learned Hand
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
Spoken at inaugural address and inscribed on his memorial.
John F. Kennedy
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the
annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave
lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up
signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary,
however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is what public
means.
Fran Lebowitz
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low
points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
Rush Limbaugh
Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
Thomas Mann
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Rand Paul
Sing in the tones of prayer,
Sing till the soaring soul
Shall float above the world's control
In Freedom everywhere!
Sing for the good that is to be,
Sing for the eyes that are to see
The land where man at last is free,
O sing for Liberty!
James Riley
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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