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 | "A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without
virtue." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in
bondage." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "A library is an arsenal of liberty." | |
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Proverb
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| "Better to die on one?s feet than to live on one?s knees." | |
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Dolores Ibarruri
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| "Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the
world are put in peril." | |
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William Garrison
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| "Enslave the liberty of one human being and the liberties of the
world are put in peril." | |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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| "Every law is an infraction of liberty." | |
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Jeremy Bentham
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| "For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into
act?" | |
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Dante Alighieri
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| "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced
and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious
right." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according
to conscience above all liberties." | |
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John Milton
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| "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 ruined." | |
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Patrick Henry
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| "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." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of
urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." | |
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Thurgood Marshall
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| "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was two things I had a
right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the
other, for no man should take me alive." | |
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Harriet Tubman
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| "I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich
nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" | |
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Emiliano Zapata
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| "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it
taken from you." | |
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Dick Cheney
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| "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." | |
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David Hume
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| "It is true that liberty is precious ? so precious that it must be
rationed." | |
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Nikolai Lenin
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| "It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward
liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to
a fatal desire?learned from the teachings of antiquity?that our writers on
public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind
in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their
fancy." | |
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Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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| "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable" | |
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Daniel Webster
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| "Liberty is always unfinished business." | |
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Unknown
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| "Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to
be acquired." | |
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Lloyd George
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| "Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult
because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Liberty is the only thing you can?t have unless you give it to
others." | |
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William Allen White
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| "Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a
mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility
of saying No to any authority?literary, artistic, philosophic, religious,
social and even political." | |
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Ignazio Silone
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| "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Liberty will not descend to a people; A people must raise themselves
to liberty; it is A blessing that must be earned before it can be
enjoyed." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Liberty, according to my metaphysics ... is a self-determining power
in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power." | |
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John Adams
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| "LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination"s most precious possessions." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely
speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost
their liberty in general and became slaves." | |
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John Peter Zenger
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| "O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy
name!" | |
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Jeanne-Marie Roland
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| "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be
limited without being lost." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "So free we seem, so fettered fast we are." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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| "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of
the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ...
finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American
people." | |
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George Washington
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| "The tree of liberty will grow only when watered by the blood of
tyrants." | |
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Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
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| "The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by
force." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away for expedients, and
by parts." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and
the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for
liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With
some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with
himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may
mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of
other men"s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible
things, called by the same name ? liberty. And it follows that each of the
things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and
incompatible names ? liberty and tyranny." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any
people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and
largess." | |
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Plutarch
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| "There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way
towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the
meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he
embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You
could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity ? for where
will the stone go, once it is quarried?" | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to
freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in
the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the
liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for
those we love." | |
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Wendell Lewis Willkie
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| "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." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own
eyes, there is the least of real liberty." | |
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Henry Martyn Robert
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| "You only have power over people so long as you don"t take everything
away from them. But when you"ve robbed a man of everything he"s no longer
in your power --he"s free again." | |
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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