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Libertarian is someone who says, 'you can be as liberal or conservative as you want to be, just don't force others to be like you.

– Larry SharpeRate it:

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 WilsonRate it:

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de TocquevilleRate it:

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

– John AdamsRate it:

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

– Daniel WebsterRate it:

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

– Nadia BoulangerRate it:

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

– Fisher AmesRate it:

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

– Lloyd GeorgeRate it:

Liberty is a central concept in political philosophy and is often considered a fundamental value in democratic societies. However, the meaning of liberty and the extent to which it should be upheld has been a topic of debate throughout history.

– Oscar Auliq-IceRate it:

Liberty is a fundamental human right that should be protected and promoted for the betterment of society.

– Oscar Auliq-IceRate it:

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

– E. B. WhiteRate it:

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants

– James Fenimore CooperRate it:

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

– Lord ActonRate it:

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

– Calvin CoolidgeRate it:

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

– David Lloyd GeorgeRate it:

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

– CiceroRate it:

Liberty is the essential ingredient to live a happy life.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

– William Allen WhiteRate it:

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

– Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)Rate it:

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

– John WinthropRate it:

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

– AnonymousRate it:

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

– James Madison, Federalist 10Rate it:

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