Top Liberty Quotes

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

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.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the ru...

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, h...

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abili...

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

SCREW CHILDREN! That's the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don't comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctr...

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule...

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between...

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the...

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental...