Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1261-1280] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.~ Andrew Weil, MD Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil Liberty consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.~ Robert Welch I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others, so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me. I want enough government, with enough constitutional safeguards, so that this necessary minimum of laws will be applied equitably to everybody, and will be binding on the rulers as well as those ruled. Beyond that I want neither laws nor government to be imposed on our people as a means or with the excuse of protecting us from catching cold, or of seeing that we raise the right kind of crops, or of forcing us to live in the right kind of houses or neighborhoods, or of compelling us to save money or to spend it, or of telling us when or whether we can pray. I do not want government or laws designed for any other form of welfarism or paternalism, based on the premise that government knows best and can run our lives better than we can run them ourselves. And my concept of freedom, and of its overwhelming importance, is implicit in these aspirations and ideals.~ Robert Welch When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.~ E. B. White Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.~ William Allen White The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt Whitman The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.~ George Will Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.~ Walter E. Williams And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.~ Marianne Williamson Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.~ Wendell L. Willkie Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.~ James Wilson Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow Wilson I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'~ Woodrow Wilson He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.~ John Witherspoon Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7 Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print