Liberty Quotes
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty
Aristotle
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force
Voltaire
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
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
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
John Dryden
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Mary Mccarty
