#liberty

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#eyes #heart #liberty #light #love

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#heaven #liberty #little #men #tyrant

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#give #liberty #more #will #you

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#converting #hold #immature #into #liberty

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

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#against #because #done #entitlements #founders

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#each #god #his #liberty #natural

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#charity #doubtful #liberty #necessary #things