L Quotes
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“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save 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.”
“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.”
“Liberty lies in the light.”
“Liberty lies in the light of love.”
“Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.”
“Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.”
“Liberty marveled at how properly people conducted themselves for the most part, greeting the world each morning in a spirit of bemused cooperation and polite assumption, agreeing on words, sharing words, acceding to the same reality of one thing or another.
As a child, Liberty had very much wanted her own words, made enthusiastic by a phrase much employed by the adults of the time—tell it in your own words. But they hadn’t meant it. Having your own words just wasn’t feasible. Having your own words isolated you from the rest of humanity. A personal vocabulary indicated a distrustful spirit, a lack of faith in the way things were.”
Source: Breaking and Entering
“Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.”
Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”
Source: The Social Contract
“Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.”
“Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.”
“Liberty means more to me than life itself.”
“Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
“Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.”
“Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]”
Source: The Unknown Soldier
“Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.”
“Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.”
Source: The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence
“Liberty must be engraved in our heart and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
“Liberty must not be abused.”
Source: Little Men: Fife at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
“Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.”
“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
“Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.”
“Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.”
“Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.”
Source: The works ...
“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...”
“Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.”
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...
“Liberty of the people is not my liberty!”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.”
Source: Selected essays
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
“Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.”
“Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.”
“Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.”
“Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”
“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.”
Source: Wealth Against Commonwealth
“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.”
“Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.”
“Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.”
“Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.”
“Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Liberty to be and weep has never been sufficient:
The winds surround our griefs, the unfenced sky
To all our failures is a taciturn unsmiling witness.”
Source: Journey to a War
“Liberty trains for liberty.”
Source: John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”
Source: John Brown (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
“LIBERTY WAS BATTLED, BLOOD-SHED, AND WON WITH A PAYMENT OF PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE.”
“Liberty was the only small cat in the circus.
Walking across the stage on her hind legs, ears back, head held high; she would let the children shake her paw and stroke her lovely orange fur.”
Source: Liberty the Circus Cat