Liberty Quotes

44 quotations about Liberty
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
Charles De Montesquieu · Liberty
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Charles De Montesquieu · Liberty
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Phaedrus · Liberty
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia · Liberty
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license.
French Proverb · Liberty
Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.
German Proverb · Liberty
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers · Liberty
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Seneca · Liberty
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Seneca · Liberty
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw · Liberty
Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
Captain J. G. Stedman · Liberty
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau · Liberty
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren · Liberty
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster · Liberty
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster · Liberty
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White · Liberty
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde · Liberty
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie · Liberty
There can be no liberty that isn't earned.
Robert R. Young · 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