Liberty Quotes
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Rand Paul
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The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.
Umberto Eco
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I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
William Shakespeare
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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Fiorello LaGuardia
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.
William Penn
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Liberty and equality are magical words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan
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Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.
William Harvey
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
Brian Wilson
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We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.
George Washington
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
Sam Ervin
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Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
Nathan Hale
