Home / Topics / Liberty Quotes

Liberty Quotes

Browse 6578 quotes about Liberty.

Liberty Quotes

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.”

Thinking Want Believe Happens I Believe Liberty Rights Balance Civilization Judgment Safety Democratic Protection Debate Civil Liberties Suspension Public Safety Democratic Rights

Author:Barbara Lee

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.”

Men Should Humans Mean Whole Use Christian Heaven Dark Liberty Taken Circumstances Blessing Judgment Army Foolishness Our Founding Fathers Prudent Us Founding Fathers

Author:John Hancock

“The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.”

Real States Liberty Judgment Free State

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.”

Men Giving Law Found Causes Liberty Land Demand Judgment Evidence Criminals Favors Trials Guilty Witness Twelve Peers Consent Compelled Deprived Baths Jury Accusation Prosecution Accusers

Author:George Mason

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”

“In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.”

“Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.”

Men Heart Made Reason Whole Liberty Grace Judgment Seasons Conversion Violent Opening Glorious Enlightened Ignored Restraint Crushed Blinded

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.”

Ifs Knows Men Choices Given Sound Liberty Wise Honest Security Judgment Latter Contempt Scorn Free Man Honest Man Sound Judgment

Author:James Farley

“Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first numbers of his journal, particular of his death, review of his character, &c

“If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.”

Ifs Thinking Want Reason Liberty Break Worst Fool Judgment Mad Bounds Sake Restraint Examination Madmen Freeman

Author:John Locke

“We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.”

Want Wells May Ends States America Law Results Liberty Taught Judging Citizens Judgment Tyranny Establishment Founders Inability Taught Us Principled Well Soon

Author:Alan Keyes

“In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.”

Ifs Giving Liberty Opinion Judging Judgment Majors Overcoming Submit Disputes

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt.1. Official letters relating to the French war and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt.1. Official letters relating to the French war and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775

“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.”

House White Liberty Gone Security Judging Balance Judgment Independent Court Finals White House National Security

Author:Edward Kennedy