Source: The Gathering Storm
Freedom Liberty Quotes
Browse 277 quotes about Freedom Liberty.
Related topics
Freedom Liberty Quotes
“The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
“To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
Source: The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
“We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: The Immoralist
Source: The Law
Source: Writings
“It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...: Posthumous and other writings
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”
“The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
Source: America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison