Liberty Quotes

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

~ Samuel Chase

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

~ Sri Aurobindo

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

~ Thomas Jefferson

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

~ Susan B. Anthony

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

~ Margaret Fuller

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

~ Alice Paul

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

~ Samuel Adams

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

~ Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

~ Felix Frankfurter

The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

~ Rand Paul

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

~ James Madison

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

~ John Adams

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

~ George Washington

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

~ William Hazlitt

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

~ Charlie Chaplin

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

~ Lord Acton

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.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

~ William Godwin

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

~ Daniel Webster

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

~ John Philpot Curran

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

~ John Adams

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

~ Harriet Tubman

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

~ Michelle Malkin

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

~ Benito Mussolini

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

~ Albert Camus

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

~ James Otis

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

~ John Charles Polanyi

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

~ Andrew Jackson

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

~ Patrick Henry

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

~ Annie Besant

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

~ John Locke