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Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency. By Samuel Johnson Truth Liberty Variance Decency Parent

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. By Bertrand Russell License Liberty

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. By James A. Garfield Liberty Negation Substantive Tangible Reality

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. By Andrzej Stasiuk Paradoxically Freedom Availability Check Commodity

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. By Bryant H. Mcgill Creativity Liberty Greatest Expression

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Liberty Overpower Ruin Solid Tasty

The first step to liberty is respecting the rights of others. By Brian Mcgreevy Step Liberty Respecting

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? By Frederic Bastiat World Liberty Makes Heart Beat

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought. By Arthur W. Pink Live True Liberty Power

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. By E.b. White Liberty Limits Men Bounds Spreads

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations. By Ronald Reagan Free Liberty Artists Audacious Celebrations

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. By James A. Garfield Heroes Liberties Make Reflected Illustrated

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name! By Madame Roland Liberty Crimes Committed

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. By Henry Campbell Black Liberty Civil Natural Political Lawful

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen. By A.e. Samaan Liberty Happen

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end. By Felix Frankfurter Unworthy Easy Make Light Insistence

Freedom is the privilege of exercising responsibility. By John Spencer Yantiss Freedom Responsibility Privilege Exercising

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. By Isaiah Berlin Liberty Conscience Equality Fairness Justice

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political. By Ignazio Silone Possibility Literary Artistic Philosophic Religious

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society. By David O. Mckay Liberty Choice Gift Society Freedom

Freedom to make mistakes, freedom to live life messily. By Darien Gee Freedom Mistakes Messily Make Live

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. By John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Liberty Power

Once for all: liberty consists not only in the right granted, but in the power given to man to exercise, to develop his faculties under the empire of justice, and under the protection of the law. By Frederic Bastiat Liberty Granted Exercise Justice Law

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people. By Rudy Giuliani Liberty People Ceding Amount Ability

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens. By Tom Ridge Liberty Citizens Precious Gift Offer

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police. By Gilbert K. Chesterton Liberty Proposal Idea Occur Political

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. By Bruce Schneier Liberty Intrusion Privacy Security Requires

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. By Friedrich August Von Hayek Opportunity Liberty Good Wrong

By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property. By Cato The Younger Man Art Fruits Labour Society

Freedom to do as we're told under the law! By William Donaldson Freedom Law Told

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual. By Josiah Warren Liberty Individual Sovereignty

There is nothing so dangerous in this world as liberty, except the lack of it. By Various Liberty Dangerous World Lack

The freedom which we enjoy in our government extends also to our ordinary life. There, far from exercising a jealous surveillance over each other, we do not feel called upon to be angry with our neighbor for doing what he likes, or even to indulge in those injurious looks which cannot fail to be offensive, although they inflict no positive penalty. By Pericles Life Freedom Enjoy Government Extends

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. By Robert G. Ingersoll Liberty Vain Word Words

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. By Sophie Swetchine God Liberty Thing Nations Mighty

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them. By Jonathan Mayhew People Gradually Deprived Liberties Encroachment

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. By Marquis De Lafayette Liberty Consists Freedom Injures Exercise

Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved. By Albert E. Bowen Liberty Bestowed Achieved Gift Conquest

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional By Woodrow Wilson Liberty Constitutional Live

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Liberty Oneself Obedience Law Laid

These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence. By William O. Douglas Feeling Amenities Selfconfidence Creativity Unwritten

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it. By Lech Walesa Freedom Humanity Soul Struggle Prove

Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers ... By William O. Douglas Liberties Citizens Guaranteed Chooses Neighbor

Freedom for us today is something transcendent even of reason, and we no longer really feel that we must justify our liberties by recourse to some prior standard of responsible rationality. Freedom - conceived as the perfect, unconstrained spontaneity of individual will - is its own justification, its own highest standard, its own unquestionable truth. By David Bentley Hart Freedom Reason Rationality Standard Today

Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms. By Cornel West Black Authoritarianism Church Ideologues Nationalists

Liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. By Ruth Benedict Liberty Thing Man Grants

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then. By H.l. Mencken Sic Darn Form Liberty Worth

Liberty is a duty, not a right. By Benito Mussolini Liberty Duty

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give! By Will Rogers Rises Liberty Question Give

Liberty means more to me than life itself. By Jack Kevorkian Liberty Life

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. By Frances Wright Exert Unjustly Justly Liberties Injury

The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All. By Thomas Merton Thing Limits Definitions Appreciation Nothing

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? By Ernestine Rose Liberty Life Equality

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. By Thomas Jefferson Liberties Liberty Speaking Writing Guards

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. By Henry Ward Beecher Liberty Breath Laws Tight Soul

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly. By John Major Liberty Bad Dastardly Equally Desirable

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. By Frederick Douglass Liberty Exist Meaningless Utter Thoughts

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality. By G. D. H. Cole Liberty Express Hindrances Personality Freedom

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is withinnot without. It is each man's own affair. By H.g.wells Save Selfcontrol Liberty Wisdom Affair

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. By Algernon Sidney Divines Nature Notions Liberty School

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity. By George W. Bush Liberty Humanity Hope

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Strong Liberty Wine Deplete Inebriate

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. By Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom Left Undone Enemies Artifice

Freedom is like a muscle of the human spirit; it tends to atrophy and diminish with neglect, but grows and becomes stronger from regular use" (p.49). By Tom Malleson Freedom Spirit Neglect Muscle Human

Freedom lies within. By Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom Lies

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. By George Bernard Shaw Liberty Nations Breath Life

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. By Henry Hazlitt Liberty Basis Morality Essential Sine

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. By Gerrit Smith True Men Nations Liberty Acknowledges

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. By William Ellery Channing Imagine Man Low Foot Spirit

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity. By Mollie Marti Freedom Integrity Flourishes Bedrock Ethics

The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all. By Ronald Reagan Breathe Americans Freedom Thought Action

Liberty for each, for all, and forever! By William Lloyd Garrison Liberty Forever

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds. By George Bernard Shaw Liberty Exposes Moral Physical Involves

Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies. By Giuseppe Mazzini Liberty Understood Choosing Duty Tendencies

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.' By Woodrow Wilson Liberty World Favor Thought Summed

Freedom is what you can do, Liberty is what they cannot do to you. By G.h. Thomas Liberty Freedom

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent. By Fisher Ames Liberty Enjoyed Exist Subordination Consists

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. By Emma Goldman People Liberty Intelligence Courage

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life. By Erich Fromm Freedom Vigour Life Forget Liberties

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. By Virgil Goode Centuries Line Granted Defenders Liberty

Emancipation of mind is the greatest liberty. By Lailah Gifty Akita Emancipation Liberty Mind Greatest

Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it. By David O. Mckay Prevail Ages Advanced Souls Yearned

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. By John Winthrop True Good Liberty Evil

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. By Mark Twain Liberty Discriminating Irreverence Creator Protector

A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability. By Alexander Hamilton Glorious Struggle Liberty Respectable Magnanimity

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. By Woodrow Wilson Liberty Man Declarations Mere Consist

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. By Lajos Kossuth Liberty Principle Security Exclusiveness Doom

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best. By Henry Ward Beecher Multitudes Persons Idea Liberty Lawful

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others. By Gunnar Myrdal Liberty Society Suppression

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. By Aldous Huxley Liberty Exist World Cages Gilded

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. By John Stuart Mill Liberty Odious Lies Person Views

Freedom is fragile. By Bryant Mcgill Freedom Fragile

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. By Will Durant Liberty Security Civilization Luxury Free

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that. By Charles Dickens Liberty Sake Gracious Talk

Freedom is a spiritual-self liberty. By Lailah Gifty Akita Freedom Liberty Spiritualself

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds. By Fulton J. Sheen Liberty Heirloom Selfdenial Deeds Requires

On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken. By Havelock Ellis Freedom Formed Dogma Hypothesis Fiction

Liberty is dangerous. By Albert Camus Liberty Dangerous

Liberty is a romantic notion to me. By Dawn Mccullough-White Liberty Romantic Notion

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination By Ilyas Kassam Freedom Defy Coexist Imagination Challenge