Quotes
Quotes about Liberty
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.
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.
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.
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
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.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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.
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
