Best Liberty Quotes

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

He who is brave is free.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

God helps those who help themselves.

That government is best which governs least.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty…

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.