Liberty Quotes

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. View quote
Daniel Webster
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. View quote
David Lloyd George
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. View quote
David Lloyd George
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. View quote
José Martí
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. View quote
John Adams
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. View quote
Ron Paul
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. View quote
William Hazlitt
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. View quote
Ron Paul
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty, as it is conceived 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 behavior. (Mary McCarthy)
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object. View quote
Patrick Henry
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. View quote
George Herbert
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. View quote
Will Durant