A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Thomas Jefferson

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Liberty Prefer Quiet Servitude Tumult

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.... ...Liberty will come to those who love it.

George W. Bush

Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

Patience Strong

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

John Milton

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Tacitus

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Isaiah Berlin

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

Liam O'Flaherty

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

John Milton

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Thomas Jefferson

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

Donald Cargill

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

H. L. Mencken

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Nancy Pearcey

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.