“Their demands were limited and practical, and for that reasonthey successfully initiated a movement that led in the end to yet undreamt-of liberties for all.”

— George Macaulay Trevelyan

describing the English barons who pressured King John into accepting the Magna Carta.
A Shortened History of England (1959)

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Historian 1876–1962

Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic

How to Advance Liberty, How to Advance Liberty https://mises.org/library/how-advance-liberty

“The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power. Through the ages the constantly expanding grasp of government has been liberty's greatest threat.”

Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines

Source: Reminiscences (1964), p. 417

“Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

"Nationality" (1862)

“Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.”

Paul Brunton (1898–1981) British philosopher

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

“Students’ role doesn’t end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples’ dreams of achieving freedom and dignity”

Tawakkol Karman (1979) Yemeni journalist, politician, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

interview after her speech
2010s, Nobel Prize winner highlights women’s role in Arab Spring (2011)

“We believe that the most pressing political necessity is the consolidation of a United Front joining together all sections of the revolutionary, radical and democratic movements. Only a united front—led in the first place by the national liberation movements and the working people—can decisively counter, theoretically, ideologically and practically, the increasingly fascistic and genocidal posture of the present ruling clique”

Angela Davis (1944) American political activist, scholar, and author

If They Come in The Morning (1971)

“There are limits on liberty, as there are limits on authority. The broad principle of those limits is generally recognized and accepted; no liberties may be exercised so as to injure others or injure the community.”

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian

Source: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 77

“When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher

3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
1970s

“Limiting the liberty of each by the like liberty of all, excludes a wide range of improper actions, but does not exclude certain other improper ones.”

Herbert Spencer book Social Statics

Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 4
Social Statics (1851)

“It's not a country – it's a world. It's impossible to see the limits... It's only in Russia that I had a similar impression, but it wasn't the same thing. In America you are confronted with a power in movement with force in reserve without end. An unbelievable vitality - a perpetual movement.”

Fernand Léger (1881–1955) French painter

Quote from: Letter from France, vol. 84, No 4, April 1946, pp. 46-62
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1940's

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