Liberty Quotes
44 quotations about Liberty
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
License they mean when they cry liberty.
Authors on Liberty
John Adams
Andre Breton
Edmund Burke
Marcus T. Cicero
Angela Y. Davis
Frederick Farrar
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Benjamin Franklin
French Proverb
German Proverb
Edward Gibbon
Samuel Gompers
M. Grundler
Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham
Patrick Henry
David Hume
Robert Green Ingersoll
Thomas Jefferson
Otto Herman Kahn
James Madison