“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
More from James Madison on Freedom
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.”
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
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...”
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...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
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.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
5 quotes“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”