Liberty Quotes
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. (Quote by - John Cotton)
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. (Quote by - Felix Frankfurter)
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right. (Quote by - Learned Hand)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. (Quote by - Montesquieu)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (Quote by - John Milton)
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.(Quote by - Lord Byron)
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. (Quote by - John Adams)
Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsley nor bomb poppies nor purchase antipeople papers. They plant papayas, and peppers. Their pulpit is the popular* not the papal but poplars. * not in the sense of ephemeral fame but what the people want. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock-- Again thy fires began to burn. (Quote by - Henry Francis Cary)
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Give me liberty, or give me death. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. (Quote by - John Philpot Curran)
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. (Quote by - Frederick Farrar)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. (Quote by - Cicero)
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (Quote by - John Adams)
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. (Quote by - Nadia Boulanger)
Every law is an infraction of liberty. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. (Quote by - Goethe)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. (Quote by - Mary McCarthy)
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. (Quote by - Philip Wylie)
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny. (Quote by - Otto Hermann Kahn)
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. (Quote by - William Allen White)
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. (Quote by - Bertrand Barere)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. (Quote by - Bible)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. (Quote by - Harriet Tubman)
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. (Quote by - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Where liberty is, there is my country. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? (Quote by - Georges Jacques Danton)
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. (Quote by - John Philpot Curran)
A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. (Quote by - Cyril James)
What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. (Quote by - John Philpot Curran)
Where liberty dwells, there is my country. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Peace is liberty in tranquillity. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. (Quote by - E.p. Thompson)
