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"liberty has never come from the 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." »Nadia Boulanger
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"If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it." »Joyce Carol Oates
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"liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest." »John Winthrop
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making" »Herbert Spencer
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"The Statue of liberty is not that monument's name. It is liberty Enlightening the World." »Deane Jordan
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." »John Peter Zenger
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"O liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." »Benjamin Franklin
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland
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"liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty." »Jeremy Bentham
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"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty" »Jeseph Joubert
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"Too much liberty corrupts us all." »Terence
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"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty." »Henry Martyn Robert
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"To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty." »Anonymous
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?" »Dante Alighieri
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"The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust
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"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." »M. Grundler
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"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act" »Dante Alighieri
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"A library is an arsenal of liberty." »Unknown
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"liberty has restraints but no frontiers." »Lloyd George
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"liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." »William Allen White
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