Liberty Quotes

"These heroes are dead. They died for liberty – they died for us."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling."

John Stuart Mill

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"When my great-grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston, he carried nothing with him except two things: a strong religious faith and a strong desire for liberty."

"The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood."

Daniel O'Connell

"That government is best which governs least."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."

Montesquieu

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

John Stuart Mill

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

Learned Hand

"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right."

Learned Hand

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

Plutarch

"The less government we have, the better."

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

George Washington

"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."

Frances Wright

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

Cicero

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

George Washington

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

Edmund Burke

"Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!"

Robert Burns