Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka Austrian Poet More Franz Kafka Quotes 54
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Writer More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes 12
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. Jean-Jacques Rousseau French More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes 4
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 3
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. Muhammad Iqbal Pakistani Poet More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes 2
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. Jose Marti Activist More Jose Marti Quotes 2
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' Robin Williams American Comedian More Robin Williams Quotes 2
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese Revolutionary More Ho Chi Minh Quotes 1
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Harriet Tubman American Activist More Harriet Tubman Quotes 1
[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Frederick Douglass American Abolitionist More Frederick Douglass Quotes 1
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman American Poet More Walt Whitman Quotes 1
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips American Activist More Wendell Phillips Quotes 1
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and yelling, "You want a piece of me?". Robin Williams American More Robin Williams Quotes 1
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. Simón Bolívar More Simón Bolívar Quotes 1
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 1
On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here. Michael Rosen More Michael Rosen Quotes 1
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. Jose Marti Activist More Jose Marti Quotes 1
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reagan American President More Ronald Reagan Quotes 1
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. Annie Besant English Philosopher More Annie Besant Quotes 1
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 1