Liberty Quotes

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

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

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

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.

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.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

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.