Logo
Quote by Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restra

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

Category:
Politics
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

Category:
Faith
Author
Henry Adams
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Liberty
category

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. – Margot Asquith

Category:
Liberty

Liberty is Gods gift, liberties the devil s. – Proverb

Category:
Liberty

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Liberty

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Liberty

Random Quotes

Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

Category:
Criticism

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this. – Mary Martin

Category:
communication

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Category:
Men

In the late 70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didnt do TV and vice versa, but thats gone now. – Robert Carlyle

Category:
Attitude