L Quotes
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“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.”
“Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.”
“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.”
“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.”
“Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.”
“Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.”
“Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.”
“liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.”
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.”
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.”
“Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“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.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...
“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.”
“Liberty is the possibility of isolation.”
“Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”
Source: The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others.”
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.”
“Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.”
Source: The History of New England from 1630 to 1649
“Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.”
“Liberty is the right not to lie.”
“Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.”
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
“Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others”
“Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.”
“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.”
“Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.”
“Liberty is the state of having no master other than the Legitimate, that is, Natural and Universal Laws. Human beings can therefore only be constrained by Legitimate Laws.”
Source: To Be Tried As A Jew
“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.”
“Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others”
Source: Two treatises of government
“Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.”
Source: Poems
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.”
“Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”
“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”
“Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. Humans should hold it up in their hands every single day of their lives and say from the deepest fathoms of their soul – “I am free – to think – to speak – to act – the way a real, novel, civilized being should – my ancestors couldn’t, but I can, and my children will”.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.”
“Liberty is worth paying for.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.”
“Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.”
“Liberty isn’t free, despite the fact that we ‘freely’ disregard that fact.”
“Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.”
“Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.”
“Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.”
“Liberty, liberty.”
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.”
Source: Spirit of Liberty