Liberty Quotes and Sayings - Page 4



Liberty is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
Jeffrey Borenstein

Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman

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

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Seward Darrow

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois

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

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran

When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters.
George Savile

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
B. R. Ambedkar

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.
Jose Marti

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H.L. Mencken

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Goethe

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

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

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus T. Cicero

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
Ludwig von Mises

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
Samuel Adams

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Edmund Burke

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
Blaise Pascal

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