Quotes
Quotes about Liberty
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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.
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des tyrans.]
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
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.
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.
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
