Quotations on Liberty | Quotations: 28 | Pages: 3
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by Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719) |
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. |
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by Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) |
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. |
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by Alexis de Tocqueville (July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859) |
By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks are turned to the earth more than to Heaven; they are the partisans of liberty, not only as the source of the nob ... |
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by Jeremy Bentham (February 15, 1748 - June 6, 1832) |
Every law is an infraction of liberty. |
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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) |
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. |
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by John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) |
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. |
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by John Adams (October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826) |
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. |
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by Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) |
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. |
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by Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) |
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. |
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by Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662) |
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Liberty:
Adams, John (2)
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Addison, Joseph (1)
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Bentham, Jeremy (1)
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Bible (1)
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Bierce, Ambrose (1)
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Burke, Edmund (3)
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Burns, Robert (1)
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius (1)
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1)
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Dryden, John (1)
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Franklin, Benjamin (2)
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Jefferson, Thomas (4)
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Milton, John (1)
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Pascal, Blaise (1)
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (2)
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Shaw, George Bernard (1)
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Tocqueville, Alexis de (2)
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Voltaire (1)
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Wilson, Thomas Woodrow (1)
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