(898 quotes found)
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech”
Benjamin Franklin
“Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
Voltaire
“It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies”
Abraham Lincoln
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
George Washington
