Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Bible
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
Habib Bourguiba
The forests have taught man liberty.
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget
I sought not in her visage, for the tinge of the morning, and the lustre of heaven. These had vanished with life; but I hoped for liberty to print a last kiss upon her lips. This was denied me; for such had been the merciless blow that destroyed her, that not a lineament remained!
Charles Brockden Brown
This is, above all, the age of liberty.
George Walker Bush
The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country. From the Fourteen Points to the Four Freedoms, to the Speech at Westminster, America has put our power at the service of principle. We believe that liberty is the design of nature; we believe that liberty is the direction of history. We believe that human fulfillment and excellence come in the responsible exercise of liberty. And we believe that freedom the freedom we prize is not for us alone, it is the right and the capacity of all mankind.
George Walker Bush