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“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.”
Lin Yutang
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Frank Herbert
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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 rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
Sigmund Freud
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
Plato
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
Plato
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
Aristotle
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
Honore de Balzac
“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
Aldous Huxley
“Empire and liberty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When liberty returns, I will return.”
Victor Hugo
“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
Victor Hugo
“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”
Franz Kafka
“This young century will be liberty's century.”
George Washington Bush
“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.”
George Washington Bush
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
