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Quotes on Liberty from Edward Abbey, Che' Guevara, Plato, Aristotle, Mao Tse Tung,George Bernard Shaw, Aesops Fables, Mikhail Bakunin, Joeseph Goebells, Alan de Benoist, Margeret Meade, Jack London, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Flannery O'Connor, Justic Hugo Williams, Robert the Bruce, Benito Mussolini, Robert J. Mathews, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Founding Fathers, Belgian Rexist, Anti-Fascists, Anarchists, Barry Goldwater, Jack London, Fredrick Engels, American Front, Troy Southgate, Sir Walter Scott, Ralph Nader, Fidel Castro, John S. Mosby, et. al.
Liberty
"You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete the monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell: 'All hope abandon, ye who enter here.'"
-George Bernard Shaw
"The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights."
-MIKHAIL A. BAKUNIN, Proposition Motivee, 1868
"The road to freedom is paved with suffering, hardships and torture; carry on my gallant and brave comrades until that certain day."
-Tom Williams
"The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them."
-Edward Abbey
"No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he is free."
-Goethe
"What foolish creatures we are! We have thrown away our lives just for the sake of a little pleasure."
-Motto from Aesop's Fable - The Flies And The Honey Jar
"Just because your paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you."
-Unknown
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
-Thomas Jefferson
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."
-Thomas Jefferson
"You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get caught excercising them."
-Terry Mitchel, Green Panthers
"It seems as if the Department [of Justice] sees the value of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome."
-Prof. Sanford H. Kadish
"Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked."
-Robert D. Sprecht
"Look at the past 25 years we went downhill, and if people don't realize it, they don't have their fucking eyes on . . . In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available to an average citizen in America right now . . . God almighty, what have we done to each other?"
-Merle Haggard
"The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them."
-Erik H. Erikson
"Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only, no matter how big its membership may be, is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently."
-Rosa Luxemburg
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell
"I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says."
-Justice Hugo L. Black
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
-Hubert H. Humphrey
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
-Hypatia of Alexandria
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
-Noam Chomsky
"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left."
-Justice William O. Douglas
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
-Kathleen Norris
"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave."
-Lysander Spooner
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-P. J. O'Rourke
"The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion."
-Edmund Burke
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
-Fmr. US Attorney General Ramsey Clark
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