Liberty Quotes and Sayings


Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.
Hugo Grotius

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Voltaire

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
Ignazio Silone

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.
Voltaire

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

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere

Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned hand

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton

Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White

Liberty is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being free will.
John Acton

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

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is nothing else but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Bible

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.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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