Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [781-800] of 1279 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes 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 The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay There is no way; we make the road by walking it.~ Antonio Machado Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.~ J. Gresham Machen Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?~ Niccolo Machiavelli Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print