#Liberty Quotes

“I was born free as Caesar; so were you”

“I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the wind,To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”

“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?”

“Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.”

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.”

“The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.”

“Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!”

“Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.”

“The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.”

“We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.”

“The less government we have the better.”

“A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.”

“It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.”

“Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.”

“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”

“Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.”

“Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.”

“Liberty is a slow fruit.”

“So far as a person thinks; they are free.”

“Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.”

“The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.”

“Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.”

“The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.”

“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”

“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.”

“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”

“There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.”

“An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”

“Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“As government grows, freedom recedes.”

“There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.”

“Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.”

“Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.”

“I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'”

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”

“No man can be just who is not free.”

“Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”

“There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.”

“The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

“Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.”

“Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.”

“Our people shall be free”

“...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.”

“Liberty is its own reward.”

“You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.”

“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”