Liberty Quotes

    • Bleating Sheep - Norman Vincent Peale

                • 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 (1898-1993)

                • American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker and Author

    • Limit Governmental Powers - Woodrow T. Wilson

              • Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

              • Woodrow T. Wilson

              • 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

    • Liberty vs. Safety - Benjamin Franklin

              • Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

                • Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790

    • Cabbies and Barbers - George Burns

              • Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

              • George Burns

              • 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor

    • Big Government - Davy Crockett

              • Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

              • Davy Crockett

              • 1786-1836, American Backwoodsman

    • Constitution is not Neutral - William O. Douglas

              • The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

              • William O. Douglas

              • 1898-1980, American Supreme Court Justice

    • Unenforceable Laws - Albert Einstein

              • Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

              • Albert Einstein

              • 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

    • Less Government - Ralph Waldo Emerson

              • The less government we have the better.

              • Ralph Waldo Emerson

              • 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

    • Protection from the Government - Milton Friedman

              • Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

              • Milton Friedman

              • 1912-2006, American Economist

    • Government Solutions - Milton Friedman

              • The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

              • Milton Friedman

              • 1912-2006, American Economist

    • Risk of War - John Hospers

              • The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

              • John Hospers

    • Too Much Government - Thomas Jefferson

              • My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

              • Thomas Jefferson

              • 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

    • Obey the Law - Solon

              • Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

              • Solon

              • 636?-558? B.C., Greek Statesman

    • Dictatorship - Harry S. Truman

              • Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

              • Harry S. Truman

              • 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

    • Won't Free Themselves - Bruce Barton

              • What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

              • Bruce Barton

              • 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive

    • Beware Well-meaning Individuals - Louis D. Brandeis

              • Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

              • Louis D. Brandeis

              • 1856-1941, American Judge

    • Liberty Should End - Frederick Farrar

              • One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.

              • Frederick Farrar

              • 1831-1903, British Clergyman, Author

    • Take Liberty for Granted - M. Grundler

              • It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

              • M. Grundler

    • Soul of Man - Robert Green Ingersoll

              • What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

              • Robert Green Ingersoll

              • 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

    • Despotism - Thomas Jefferson

              • Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

              • Thomas Jefferson

              • 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

    • Good Behavior - Mary McCarthy

              • Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

              • Mary McCarthy

              • 1912-1989, American Author, Critic

    • Security

              • Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

              • H. L. Mencken

              • 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

    • Guard Your Enemy - Thomas Paine

              • He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

              • Thomas Paine

              • 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

    • Liberty Lost

              • Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

              • Jean Jacques Rousseau

              • 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

    • Responsibility - George Bernard Shaw

              • Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

              • George Bernard Shaw

              • 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

    • Rather be Poor - Woodrow T. Wilson

              • I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

              • Woodrow T. Wilson

              • 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

    • Going Abroad - John Quincy Adams

              • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

              • John Quincy Adams to Congress, July 4, 1821

              • 1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

    • Going Abroad w/ Fake Response - George W. Bush

              • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

              • John Quincy Adams to Congress, July 4, 1821

              • 1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

              • Yes we do.

              • George W. Bush in 2002

              • Forty-third President of the USA

    • Going Abroad w/Real Response - George W. Bush

              • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

              • John Quincy Adams to Congress, July 4, 1821

              • 1767-1848, Sixth President of the USA

              • ...our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary...

              • George W. Bush

              • Forty-third President of the USA

              • 2002, West Point Academy