Liberty Quotes

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.