David O. McKay Quotes

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Nobody likes not having freedom.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

Civil liberty is the power of a civil society or state to govern itself by its own discretion or by laws of its own making, without being subject to the impositions of any power in appointing and directing which the collective body of the people have no concern and over which they have no control

Liberty and Independence forever.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.