Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [781-800] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Government has no other end than the preservation of property.~ John Locke Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.~ Henry Cabot Lodge Because law enforcement resources have been concentrated on the street drug trade in minority communities, drug arrests of minorities increased at 10 times the rate of increase for whites.~ Los Angeles Times True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free.~ James Russell Lowell And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell Lowell The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty. [Lat., Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.]~ Lucanus Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. Lucas Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only -- no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.~ Rosa Luxemburg Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.~ Rosa Luxemburg To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.~ Lord George Lyttleton The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.~ General Douglas MacArthur No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.~ General Douglas MacArthur The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.~ General Douglas MacArthur And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print