L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.”
“Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“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.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“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.”
“Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”
“Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.”
“Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1
“Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
“Liberty is not a middle position between legalism and license; it is another thing entirely. We have a hard time with this. Liberty is not moderate legalism or moderated license. Liberty is stricter than legalism, and liberty is freer than license.”
Source: Why Children Matter
“Liberty is not a right but a duty.”
Source: Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky
“Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.”
“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”
“Liberty is not enough.”
“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”
“Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”
Source: Discourse on Woman
“Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.”
“Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”
“Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.”
Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed
“Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.”
“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.”
Source: Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends
“Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.”
Source: Emile
“Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself”
“Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.”
“Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.”
Source: Minority Report
“Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.”
“Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.”
“Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.”
“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )”
“Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.”
“Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.”
“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
“Liberty is security. Freedom is security.”
“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”
“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.”
“Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Liberty is the act of making the Government Fear
what you KNOW!”
“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Liberty is the breath of progress.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Liberty is the chosen
resort of the artistic
shopper.”
“Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.”
Source: Trial of C.B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, at Morristown, N.J., May 19th and 20th, 1887
“Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.”
“Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.”