Quotes about Liberty
that would
give up a little
liberty to gain
a little security
will deserve
neither and
lose both."
-Benjamin Franklin
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Votes: 5
Thomas JeffersonLiberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. Votes: 4
Calvin CoolidgeLiberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Votes: 3
Alexis de TocquevilleLiberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroLiberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter. Votes: 3
Robert Green IngersollThere is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. Votes: 3
Robert G. IngersollHumanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. Votes: 3
Marquis de LafayetteLiberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. Votes: 3
Sophie SwetchineLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. Votes: 3
John Stuart MillThe most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself. Votes: 3
Sophie SwetchineLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. Votes: 3
Marcus Tullius CiceroSeek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Votes: 2
Frank HerbertThroughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. Votes: 2
Davy CrockettArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Votes: 2
George WashingtonUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Votes: 2
Milton FriedmanHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Votes: 2
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. Votes: 2
H. L. MenckenWhoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinI must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Votes: 2
John AdamsEverything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Votes: 2
Albert EinsteinThere is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Votes: 2
Christopher MorleyI ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. Votes: 2
George MasonPolitics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty. Votes: 0
Jakub Bożydar WiśniewskiOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltIn essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity. Votes: 0
Rupertus MeldeniusTrue liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all Votes: 0
William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldHe alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAs so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Votes: 0
Otto Hermann KahnThe great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Friedrich August von HayekOur liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeThe dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
Richard Francis BurtonPersonal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonLet no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
Sarah Josepha HaleFreedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGovernment cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.
Roman Baldorioty de CastroIt is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
Toussaint LouvertureThink What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty
Benjamin FranklinThat liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
Thomas JeffersonThe free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
Adlai E. StevensonCountries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
Baron de MontesquieuAs is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Bruce HerschensohnIf liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman HillardRemember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
George WashingtonAmericans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
Norman Vincent PealeLiberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others
Georges ClemenceauMan usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Austin O'MalleyThe ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward DahlbergOnly a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Fiorello H. La GuardiaLiberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma GandhiLiberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen WhiteAfter order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
Calvin CoolidgeReligious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLiberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
Robert ToombsI never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Voltairine de CleyreLiberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
Mahatma GandhiWe dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiLiberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
Miguel de CervantesI am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Thomas BecketLiberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
Virginia FoxxWe shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
William Graham SumnerWe all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham LincolnThose who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin FranklinThe vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
Carrie Chapman Catt[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
David O. McKayOnce liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
Jean-Paul SartreLicense they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
John MiltonLiberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord ActonTo preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...
Richard Henry LeeIn what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
Saint AugustineWhere men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.
William Ernest HockingGood morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
Arthur C. ClarkeTemperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.
Louis KronenbergerThe men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Max StirnerSuch security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
Benjamin TuckerInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
Frederick DouglassYou can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.
Grigory SanakoevLiberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
James BovardI shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
John AdamsLiberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
John MajorEvery man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Robert Green Ingersoll...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Thomas PaineWe must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
Tom RidgeLiberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William HazlittNothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
Benjamin FranklinThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Immanuel KantNothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.
John LongeneckerLiberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.
John LongeneckerGovernment means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
Ludwig von MisesEnglish is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav HavelAn enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
William Henry MauleThe liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!
William McKinleyLiberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
Clarence DarrowPower is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxThe very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
Ellen KeyOur security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.
George W. BushOrder means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
Henri Frederic AmielWealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
James Russell LowellLiberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.
Mikhail BakuninOnce fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Walt WhitmanLiberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Will DurantThere is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
William Rounseville AlgerIt is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
African SpirThe spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
Francois GuizotMan's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
Frederic FarrarLiberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
G. D. H. ColeThe most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
John HowardIf God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.
Mikhail BakuninTo a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
William Lyon PhelpsAnything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
Alan KeyesThe lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
Amartya SenWhen you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
Cristela AlonzoIt was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
David LettermanResistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Henry Highland GarnetWe must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.
John AdamsNations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
John MiltonWhen we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty....
John WebsterLiberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.
Malcolm XOur land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.
Thomas CampbellThe United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
Thomas PaineWhat has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
Abraham LincolnSuch an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
Benjamin WhichcoteI started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
Harriet TubmanPeople will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
James MadisonTouch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?
John KeatsLiberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
Lord ActonThe torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.
Ronald ReaganIn our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
Thomas JeffersonFor the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.
Albert J. NockThroughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
Barry GoldwaterReligious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.
Carly FiorinaLiberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah BerlinFetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
Mary AstellLiberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
Nathan HaleThe Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
Abraham LincolnIn every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur KeithLiberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
Baron de MontesquieuAmerica stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.
Colin KaepernickOur country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.
Deneen BorelliThe survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
George W. BushNo form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
H. L. MenckenOur country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
James MadisonIs there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?
Neal BoortzThe party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
Vilfredo ParetoThe absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
Aleister CrowleyWeariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
Friedrich NietzscheA standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
James MadisonThe will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.
John C. CalhounMen cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Lord ActonReligion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
Philip SchaffThe union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
Robert Hugh BensonShow me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel GompersLiberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
Samuel JohnsonDeep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!
Tobias Smollett[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Jeffrey RosenBut it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
John Kenneth GalbraithLet your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
Joseph JoubertWhoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
Jules SimonI tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
William WallaceExcessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
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