Liberty Quotes

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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

- Sam Adams

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

- Andy Kuhl

The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery

- Anna Sui

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

- George Washington

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.

- James Madison

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

- Will Durant

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

- Oscar Wilde

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense

- Mark Twain

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty

- Aristotle

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.

- Aristotle

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

- Thomas Sowell

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

- Geoffrey Fisher

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

- John Stuart Mill