liberty and responsibility Quotes

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Liberty is dangerous.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

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.