Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1241-1260] of 1279 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.~ Henry Grady Weaver If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.~ Daniel Webster No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.~ Daniel Webster Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.~ Daniel Webster The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.~ Daniel Webster The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.~ Daniel Webster Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.~ Daniel Webster Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.~ Daniel Webster Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.~ Daniel Webster Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.~ Daniel Webster Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.~ Daniel Webster God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.~ Daniel Webster I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open, on golden hinges, to lovers of Union as well as of Liberty.~ Daniel Webster On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.~ Daniel Webster Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.~ Noah Webster Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.~ Andrew Weil, MD Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil Liberty consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.~ Robert Welch Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print