27 Quotes filtered by freedom & liberty
Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deads and the common pretext of crime.
Lord Acton 26/02/1877
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Politically there is no record of the continuance of political freedoms when economic freedoms have died.
Rhodes Boyson
Category: Freedom & Liberty
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
Lord Boyd-Orr
Category: Food, Freedom & Liberty
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.
Tony Benn 22/11/1990
Category: Freedom & Liberty
We have shown that orderly planning and freedom are not incompatible.
Clement Attlee 17/02/1950
Category: Labour Governments, Freedom & Liberty
The real test of one's belief in the doctrine of Habeas Corpus is not when one demands its application on behalf of one's friends but of one's enemies.
Clement Attlee
Category: Freedom & Liberty
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by its minorities.
Lord Acton 1877
Category: Freedom & Liberty
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson 13/11/1787
From a letter to W S Smith, written from Paris.
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
Category: Freedom & Liberty
There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world.
Stanley Baldwin
Category: Freedom & Liberty, Nationalism
The liberty of the individual must be this far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill 1859
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke 1777
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Freedom is an indivisable word. If we want to enjoy it and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin.
Wendell Wilkie
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Category: Freedom & Liberty
Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Freedom & Liberty, Society
We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.
Margaret Thatcher 09/1983
Category: Freedom & Liberty
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!
Margaret Thatcher 1979
Category: Freedom & Liberty
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.
Margaret Thatcher 14/11/1989
Category: Freedom & Liberty, Ideas
