Liberty
Thomas Jefferson on Liberty
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
George Carlin on Freedom
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
Aristotle on Democracy
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
Edward Everett on Education
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.“
Eric Hoffer on Freedom
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
John F. Kennedy on Liberty and Learning
“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”
Eugene McCarthy on Bureaucracy
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
Benjamin Franklin on Liberty
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Voltaire on Freedom
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Thomas Jefferson on Liberty
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
George Bernard Shaw on Liberty
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”