Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [381-400] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes 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 The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.~ Max Eastman If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.~ Thomas A. Edison Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert Einstein Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.~ Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.~ Albert Einstein As the circle of knowledge expands, so does the Sphere of darkness that encompasses it.~ Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.~ Albert Einstein Free is not the same as free and easy.~ Larry Eisenberg Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Liberty is a slow fruit.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.~ Quintus Ennius He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.~ Epictetus No one is free who is not master of himself.~ Epictetus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print