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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton1608–1674
- Liberty
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
John Milton1608–1674Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.
John Milton1608–1674On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Liberty
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
Joan Miró1893–1983As quoted by P. Bourcier in Les Nouvelles littéraires (1968)
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
Ludwig von Mises1881–1973The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 10: The Concept of a Perfect System of Government
- Government
- Liberty
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 39
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris1834–1896The Decorative Arts (1877)
- Art
- Education
We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965See It Now (1954)
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon1769–1821
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
Napoleon1769–1821Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
- Government
Freedom and power bring responsibility.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
- Responsibility
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964“A Tryst with Destiny” speech, Constituent Assembly, New Delhi (14 August 1947)
- History
Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964“A Tryst with Destiny”, speech to the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi (14 August 1947)
- War & Peace
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964“A Tryst with Destiny”, speech to the Constituent Assembly, New Delhi (14 August 1947)
- History
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 283, tr. Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann
- Work