L Quotes
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“Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.”
“Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.”
“Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.”
“Liberty, if I could, I would take your pain and put it in my heart. If there was a way, I won’t hesitate.”
Source: The Mask Of A Hero (The Dauntless Rangers, #1).
“Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.”
“Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate a virtually unlimited exercise of presidential power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents.”
“Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.”
Source: Complete Works
“Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”
Source: Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals
“Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Liberty is a central concept in political philosophy and is often considered a fundamental value in democratic societies. However, the meaning of liberty and the extent to which it should be upheld has been a topic of debate throughout history.”
“Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.”
“Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.”
Source: Collected Works
“Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.”
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Liberty is a duty, not a right.”
“Liberty is a fundamental human right that should be protected and promoted for the betterment of society.”
“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”
Source: The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909
“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.”
“Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.”
Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization
“Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.”
“Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.”
“Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.”
Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth
“Liberty is a product of order.”
“Liberty is a slow fruit.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.”
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.”
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.”
“Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own.”
Source: Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.
“Liberty is about our rights to question everything.”
“Liberty is about the right to question everything.”
“Liberty is always freedom from the government.”
“Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.”
“Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.”
“Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.”
“Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.”
Source: Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven
“Liberty is dangerous.”
Source: Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven
“Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.”
Source: An Introduction to Latin Syntax ...: To which is Subjoined An Epitome of Ancient History ... to which is Added a Proper Collection of Historical and Chronological Questions
“Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.”
“Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.”
“Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme”
Source: Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson
“Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.”
“Liberty is its own reward.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”
“Liberty is life; slavery is death.”
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.”
“Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.”
“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.”
Source: Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass
“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. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption
“Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.”