“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
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Liberty Quotes
Source: Collected essays
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Source: A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
“I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.”
Source: The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis