Liberty Quotes

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

~ Thomas Jefferson

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

~ D. H. Lawrence

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

~ Toussaint Louverture

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.

~ George Berkeley

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

~ Walter Annenberg

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

~ Jerry Falwell

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

~ Frédéric Bastiat

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

~ Aly Khan

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

~ George Washington

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

~ Colin Kaepernick

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

~ Gary Johnson

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

~ Frank Herbert

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

~ John C. Calhoun

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

~ Patrick Henry

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.

~ Milton Friedman

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

~ Aldous Huxley

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

~ Ernest Renan

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

~ Hassan Nasrallah

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

~ Edmund Burke

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

~ Dalai Lama

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

~ Wendell Phillips

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

~ James Otis

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is worth paying for.

~ Jules Verne

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

~ Wilfrid Laurier