Quotes on liberty
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?
Wright, Francis
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Cheney, Dick
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Franklin, Benjamin
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
Silone, Ignazio
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Webster, Daniel
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
Agesilaus
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Lawrence, D.H.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Amiel, Henri
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Shaw, George Bernard
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
Unknown, Author
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Lincoln, Abraham
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Montesquieu, Baron de
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Bierce, Ambrose
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Burke, Edmund
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Franklin, Benjamin
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Dodd, Christopher