"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others"
Read quote
57 likes
Liberty quotes
Liberty
2.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Liberty
Browse quotes that often appear alongside liberty — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Liberty quotes (page 5 of 131)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."
Read quote
56 likes
"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."
Read quote
56 likes
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
Read quote
56 likes
"When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty."
Read quote
56 likes
"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
Read quote
54 likes
"These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for."
Read quote
54 likes
"An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
Read quote
52 likes
"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."
Read quote
52 likes
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
Read quote
52 likes
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
Read quote
52 likes
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority."
Read quote
51 likes
"A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away."
Read quote
51 likes
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
Read quote
51 likes
"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate."
Read quote
49 likes
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
Read quote
49 likes
"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
Read quote
47 likes
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."
Read quote
46 likes
"A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty."
Read quote
45 likes
"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave."
Read quote
45 likes