Liberty Without Responsibility Quotes

#1. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

Felix Morley

#5. Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#6. A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

Stephen Baxter

#7. We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

Nhat Hanh

#8. Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

Dave Champion

#9. Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

Dick Randolph

#10. I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

Randy Weber

#11. Living off others is a form of bondage - for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

Cameron C. Taylor

#12. There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within
not without. It is each man's own affair.

H.G.Wells

#13. I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

Monica Crowley

#14. Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

William Henry Harrison

#15. Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions ... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich Hayek

#16. Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

Thomas Szasz

#17. And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves ... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

John Boehner