2,103 Quotes About Liberty

"The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention."

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going."

"We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent."

"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us."

"The world has never had a good definition"

"Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous."

"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."

"It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice."

"Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man."