Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [681-700] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.~ Thomas Jefferson Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.~ Thomas Jefferson The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.~ Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.~ Thomas Jefferson Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.~ Thomas Jefferson And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.~ Jesus of Nazareth Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.~ Andrew Johnson We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. Johnson Throughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues.~ Paul Bede Johnson They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.~ Chief Joseph Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.~ Carl Gustav Jung The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.~ Junius It seems as if the Department [of Justice] sees the value of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome.~ Prof. Sanford H. Kadish As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.~ Otto Hermann Kahn The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.~ Otto Hermann Kahn The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.~ Immanuel Kant Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print