Quotes about Liberty Abuse

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Charles Evans Hughes

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press.

Daniel Defoe

To Cure the ill Use of Liberty, with a Deprivation of Liberty, is like cutting off the Leg to cure the Gout in the Toe

Ambrose Bierce

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
strangers.

George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Mark Twain

...the liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

Thomas Gage

The press, that distinguished appendage of public liberty … has been invariably prostituted …

The American Press was actually split and there were Tory and revolutionary editors. However, like almost all politicians of all times in time of crisis, he saw the press as inaccurate and corrupt and an unfortunate “appendage of public liberty.”

Samuel Adams

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

Charles Evans Hughes

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.

Thomas Jefferson

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

Simon Bolivar

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

Emil Cioran

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Tacitus

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Liberty Abuse Quotes