62 Top Liberty Quotes And Sayings
Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s behaviour or political views.
1. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
2. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr
3. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
4. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
5. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
6. God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general plan
Thomas Jefferson
7. Here they found life because here there was FREEDOM to live.
Roosevelt
8. 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
Ignazio Silone
9. Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings – give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else. Patrick Henry
10. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
11. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
12. To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Charlie Chaplin
13. Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Dismissing, therefore, the justice of our cause as incontestable, the only question is, What is best for us to pursue in our present circumstances?
Samuel Adams
14. Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
15. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
16. 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?
Robin Williams
17. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Benjamin Franklin
18. Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death.
Patrick Henry
19. 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.
Thomas Paine
20. Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice
Anonymous
21. On what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote.
Benjamin Franklin
22. Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
John Quincy Adams
23. Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
24. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. … comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
25. It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul. Civil and religious liberty were diffused into my soul by my grandfathers.
Joseph Smith
26. I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.
Big Boi
27. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
28. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
29. True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
William Murray
30. Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan
31. I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thomas Jefferson
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32. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran
33. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin
34. There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert G. Ingersoll
35. I'm convinced that you never have to give up Liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.
Ron Paul
36. Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
37. If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
38. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. Learned Hand
39. Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
G. D. H. Cole
40. We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
41. As government expands, liberty contracts.
R. Reagan
42. 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. John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
43. I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
John D. Rockefeller
44. What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson
45. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
46. If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
47. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
48. If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
49. Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison
50. Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin
51. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
52. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
53. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
54. The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
55. Personal liberty if you understand it means a lot It means you have a right to your life and you have a right to the fruits of your labor You both have economic and social liberty As long as one does not hurt another individual you can run your life as you so choose
Ron Paul
56. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. Sigmund Freud
57. Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Calvin Coolidge
58. Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.
Ron Paul
59. Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
60. 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 Green Ingersoll
61. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
62. Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville