Liberty Quotes
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
Where liberty is, there is my country
Benjamin Franklin
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson
All government, of course, is against liberty.
Henry Louis Mencken
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine
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
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave
Thomas Jefferson
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others
John Locke
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice
John Adams
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
