Top Liberty Quotes

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers ma...

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Liberty Definition

(n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

(n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.

(n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

(n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.

(n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.

(n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.

(n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.

(n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

(n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

(n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yoursel...

Think what it implies when you say that a country needs leaders. In your day-to-day life, you interact with all sorts of other individuals. And that's all society is: the collective name for lots of I...

Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation did n...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers.

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by s...

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities;...