Liberty Quotes

"My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing."

Samuel Francis Smith

"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body."

Henry St John Bolingbroke

"Liberty of thought is the life of the soul."

Voltaire

"What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”

“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

“It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.”

“To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

“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.”

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.”

“Be not intimidated, nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretence of politeness, delicacy, or decency.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.”

“Liberty and equality will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.”

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”