| Author |
Quotes |
| Georges Jacques Danton | For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? |
| Goethe | He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. |
| H L Mencken | I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. |
| Harriet Tubman | I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. |
| Henry Brooks Adams | Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| Henry Francis Cary | When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock-- Again thy fires began to burn. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. |
| Jeremy Bentham | Every law is an infraction of liberty. |
| John Adams | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. |
| John Cotton | If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. |
| John Philpot Curran | Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. |
| John Philpot Curran | The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. |
| John Philpot Curran | To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. |
| Learned Hand | The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right. |
| Louis D Brandeis | The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. |
| Marcus T Cicero | Peace is liberty in tranquillity. |
| Mary McCarthy | Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. |
| Mary Mccarty | Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour. |
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