“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
More from Tocqueville on Freedom
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”