Quotes on Liberty

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Author: John Adams

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Author: Florence Allen

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Author: Barbara Amiel

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Author: Maxwell Anderson

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Author: Walter Annenberg

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Author: Michael Badnarik

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Author: W. Bois

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Author: Andre Breton

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Author: Edmund Burke

This young century will be liberty's century.

Author: George Bush

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Author: John Calhoun

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

Author: Dick Cheney

Empire and liberty.

Author: Marcus Cicero

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Author: John Cotton

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Author: George Curtis

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Author: Jacques Delors

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Author: James Douglas

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Author: Harry Fosdick

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Author: Viktor Frankl

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Author: Marcus Garvey

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Author: David George

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

Author: Virgil Goode

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

Author: Duff Green

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Author: Learned Hand

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Author: Hanoi Hannah

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Author: Friedrich Hayek

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Author: Georg Hegel

When liberty returns, I will return.

Author: Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Author: Victor Hugo

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Author: David Hume

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Author: Burl Ives

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Author: Robert Jackson

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Author: Arthur Keith

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

Author: Fritz Kreisler

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Author: Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Author: Jose Marti

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

Author: Colin Mochrie

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Author: Colin Mochrie

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Author: Mary Montagu

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Author: Michael Novak

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Author: Sandra O'Connor

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Author: George Orwell

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Author: Tom Palmer

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Author: Phaedrus

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Author: Wendell Phillips

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Author: Francis Picabia

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Author: Albert Pike

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Author: Tom Ridge

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Author: John Ruskin

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Author: Bertrand Russell

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Author: Sallust

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Author: Lucius Seneca

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

Author: Ezra Stiles

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Author: Billy Sunday

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Author: Terence

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Author: Terence

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Author: Henry Thoreau

Liberty is worth paying for.

Author: Jules Verne

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Author: Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Author: Daniel Webster

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

Author: William White

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Author: Tobias Wolff

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Author: Frank Wright

Let your uniqueness shine brighter than any conformity, for in being true to yourself lies your ultimate freedom.

Author: Jenna Ellis