| Author |
Quotes |
| Montesquieu | Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. |
| Nadia Boulanger | A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. |
| Otto Hermann Kahn | As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny. |
| Patrick Henry | Give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Patrick Henry | 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 | I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. |
| Phaedrus | I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. |
| Philip Wylie | If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. |
| Robert Browning | So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. |
| Robert Burns | Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. |
| Thomas Jefferson | I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. |
| Thomas Jefferson | It behoves 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 | The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. |
| Thomas Jefferson | The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. |
| Thomas Paine | Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. |
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