Liberty Quotes

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.