Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 1279 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ William O. Douglas The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.~ William O. Douglas Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers ...~ William O. Douglas Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.~ William O. Douglas I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!~ Frederick Douglass Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.~ Frederick Douglass The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.~ Frederick Douglass ... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.~ Frederick Douglass What is possible for me is possible for you.~ Frederick Douglass To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick Douglass I think it might be important to point out that this country is a one-party country. Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.~ Hugh Downs The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.~ John Dryden The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.~ W. E. B. Du Bois The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.~ W. E. B. Du Bois Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.~ John Foster Dulles Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.~ Will Durant In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.~ Will Durant Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy Durante O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.~ Sir Edward Dyer Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print