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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
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert G Ingersoll
The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave. Robert G Ingersoll
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. Robert G Ingersoll
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre
You have to stand up for what’s right in life. Unless you do that, you are nothing. Freedom and liberty is what people really want. And it’s time to stop the duplicity of government lying to us. Aaron Russo, interview Alex Jones
They’ll tell you to doomsday they’re defending your liberties. They’re lying! Aaron Russo, Mad as Hell
Only Reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. Clive Bell, 1881-1964, English art critic
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman’s liberty! Fanny Burney, English novelist & diarist
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilisation than any other institution established by the human race. William Howard Taft
You talk about giving the people their rights as if you can make a present of their liberty, as a reward for services rendered. Citizen Kane 1941 starring Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten & Dorothy Comingore & Ray Collins & Paul Stewart & Everett Sloane & Agnes Moorehead et al, director Orson Welles
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. ibid.
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of Despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. Thomas Jefferson
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own. Thomas Jefferson
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. Thomas Jefferson
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan. Thomas Jefferson
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle
To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty my message is this: your tactics only aide terrorists. John Ashcroft
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis D Brandeis: Olmstead v US 438 1928 dissenting
Liberty is precious – so precious that it must be rationed. Vladimir Lenin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Benjamin Franklin
Liberty’s in every blow!
Let us do – or die!! Robert Burns
To have granted liberties, and not to have liberties in truth and realities, is but to mock the kingdom. John Pym, 1584-1643, English parliamentary leader
If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait for ever. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, 1843