Liberty Quotes

Give me liberty or give me death.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

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

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.