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Liberty Quotes
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh."
110
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
91
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
66
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
61
"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
59
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."
57
"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
55
"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."
53
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
52
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
52
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
51
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
49
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
49
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
49
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
48
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century."
45
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
44
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
44
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
43
"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it."
42
"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times."
42
"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
41
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
41
"Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body."
41
"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
39
"The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish."
38
"Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?"
37
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