Quotes
Quotes about Liberty
I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.
Fishes that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Give me again my hollow tree,
A crust of bread, and liberty.
Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree,
It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins,
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.
Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.
