Liberty Quotes

I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The people are their own liberators.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

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, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

'Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.