Quotes About Liberty

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.