(898 quotes found)
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
Benjamin Franklin
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force”
Voltaire
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”
