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
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
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
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams American President More John Adams 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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese Revolutionary More Ho Chi Minh 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
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Harriet Tubman American Activist More Harriet Tubman 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
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
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. Jose Marti Activist More Jose Marti 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
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
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 1
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes English Philosopher More Thomas Hobbes Quotes 1