Quotes About Liberty

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

True obedience is true freedom.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

And yet, though in history the movement to restore eros to our idea of human nature and the movement for political liberation are parts of the same vision, we must make a distinction between the libertine's idea of liberty, 'to do as one likes,' and a vision of human 'liberation.

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They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought.