Liberties Quotes (page 4)

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• imagination
• mostly
• precious

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Ambrose Bierce

• she
• strong
• great

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

• death
• deathly
• wolves

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin

• gift
• liberty
• offers

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens. Tom Ridge

• freedom
• humanity
• words

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Joichi Ito

• power
• powerful
• choices

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams

• people
• knowledge
• preserved

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams

• political
• end
• politeness

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton

• powerful
• power
• liking

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. Lord Acton

• prevention
• prevent
• controlling

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. John Acton

• good
• communication
• free

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• humanity
• equality
• goals

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. Isaiah Berlin

• passion
• help
• marketing

they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. Charles Dickens

• words
• common
• vote

For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty. Arthur Machen

• space
• wind
• change

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it, and framed an humbler supplication; for change, stimulus; that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. Charlotte Bronte