A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
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
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
The forests have taught man liberty.
I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
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