The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Dennis Prager
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
John Stuart Mill
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Alexis De Tocqueville
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
Ludwig Borne
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
Lord Mansfield
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.
Jonathan Edwards
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women.
Learned Hand
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Kathleen Norris
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'conner
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin Rush
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
William Allen White
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson
I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
William Wells Brown
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
Robert H. Jackson
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Ernest Renan
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
Sir George Savile
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Benito Mussolini
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
James Madison
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Davy Crockett
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George W. Bush
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
George W. Bush
Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.
George W. Bush
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
Bertrand Russell
A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
Most of the industry players are now backing Liberty.
Graham Titterington
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett Hale
We cannot defend liberty abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the Romans) had an ancestral fear of kings, similar to the American fear to a degree ? pride in their liberty.
Bruno Heller
The war on our civil liberties is actually begun. There's a price to be paid for independence. But I ask you, what price-- liberty?
Rep. Neal Kurk
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all.
Pat Schroeder
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
They really want to get out of this case already because ... no matter what, even if you are under US custody, your liberty is constrained.
Benjamin Formoso
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
August Bebel
My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.
Lawrence Lessig
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
Charles Evans Hughes
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
Liberty and civilisation have everywhere and at all times emanated from towns….
Friedrich List
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Maximilien Robespierre
We're going to take them to the Liberty Bell, ... We're going to take them to football games and baseball games.
John Street
It was hard to look at ourselves as the good guys. It just wasn't about liberty and democracy.
Paul Mooney
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Potter Stewart
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
One nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Michael Newdow
Liberty is focused externally now, toward Europe and Germany specifically.
Tom Wolzien
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Schurz
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Richard Baxter
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene J. Mccarthy
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
James Otis
It was good team defense. We didn't play well against Liberty and needed to get better.
Anthony Hernandez
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Nadia Boulanger
That would be huge, but we can't overlook Liberty. We can't think about Radford. We can't think too far ahead.
Colin Stevens
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. Mcgill
In America we believe in Life, Liberty - and the pursuit.
Al Diamond
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson
All that I'm at liberty to say is that the board felt it was in the best interest of the district to open the position (to interviews).
Kelly Reed
There are a lot of liberty issues. I'm not sure these things are going to make us any safer and they have the potential to infringe on civil liberties.
Beth Wilson
It definitely meant more after [September 11] as a symbol of freedom and liberty.
Nick Novak
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Richard Lovelace
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster
Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Charlton Heston
And she has a fairly consistent political agenda. She's a baby, so individual liberty is a developing idea in her psyche.
Daniel Handler
It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?
Josephine Baker
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lyn Yutang
It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
Vladimir Lenin
We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge.
Paul Ellis
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
Archbishop Ireland
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Dante Alighieri
Fishes, that tipple in the deep, / Know no such liberty.
Richard Lovelace
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
George Lucas
You may as well melt down the Liberty Bell.
Rochelle Cochran
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria Montessori
Liberty throw away the key.
Vivienne Westwood
The meeting took place on Monday, but I'm not at liberty to disclose the contents of the talks.
Abdel Haq Alani
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
This is a watershed decision (that) reaffirms the liberty, dignity and privacy Americans cherish at the end of life.
Barbara Coombs Lee
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.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We get a lot of people in the Liberty Theater looking at our work.
Judith Copeland
Last year, some wanted to go to Block Island and the Statue of Liberty.
Allison Hine
If anything, I think they (Liberty) were even stronger on the new business front than I was looking for.
Chris Steward
We will evaluate the situation constantly and find more room to relocate these (in Liberty County) if it becomes necessary.
Michelle Lyons
The principle of equality and liberty are not just words on paper.
David Buckel
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all - By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall (The Liberty Song).
John Dickinson
I am passionate about liberty. I'm by nature an anarchist, an individualist.
Lina Wertmuller
We're not going to allocate Liberty Bonds today to buildings that are never going to be built.
Dan Doctoroff
Lots of companies talk about having a long-term focus. At Liberty, they really do.
Mark Greenberg
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran
Our participation in the state lease sale is aligned with our current interest in progressing Liberty along.
Daren Beaudo
There's an irony: He's fighting for liberty and democracy, and back home he's killed because he's a black man in the South.
Jefferson Russell
Obviously Frank is a fine man. Obviously I know him and I respect him as a person and as a former coach. Beyond that, I'm not at liberty to comment.
Chris Townsend
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis De Tocqueville
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
B. R. Ambedkar
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
William Blackstone
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.
William Feather
I hope that schools down the road won't make the same choice that Liberty made.
Jacob Reitan
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
John C. Calhoun
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
Thomas Paine
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Max Stirner
The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
Duff Green
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!
James Monroe
But we love those guys. They always put Liberty first. They'll always be part of the Liberty basketball family.
Pat Frazer
With Liberty and Justice For All.
John Bradley
The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty.
Benjamin Rush
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Titus Maccius Plautus
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
These Liberty girls, they don't have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!
John Swickrath
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter
He will be joining the board of Liberty Life as will Rex Tomlinson who will continue in his role of deputy chief executive and will in this capacity be assuming broader responsibilities.
Derek Cooper
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
Michael Badnarik
I'm not at liberty to say right now.
Julie O'brien
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
Maxwell L. Anderson
John Ashcroft is not a friend of liberty and justice. George Bush, the appointed president, is not someone who ---prior to a month ago--- ever demonstrated any insight or acuity about the world around him. Have these men been born again, again?
Jeffrey Montgomery
Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
Albert Gallatin
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
John Randolph
I'm not at liberty to say, except that he appears to be a victim.
John Harrison
Interior liberty is universal.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Lysander Spooner
We played well but our shots wouldn't fall. We gave up a few points but Liberty Hill is a very good team. They are well-coached and a very disciplined team.
Shawn Dalbert
Why not Liberty?
Katie Feenstra
Here's 'we the people', and then here you find the new Statue of Liberty here and then again here at the bottom.
Tim Quinlan
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia
I don't know what we'll build there. We might build a new Liberty High School there and a second elementary school.
James Brice
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spenser
I do, however, appreciate working with a degree of artistic liberty. Sometimes it's required.
Jerry Parker
But I will continue my battle for liberty in other ways, with he help of the lawyers who assist me.
Paolo Di Canio
We're celebrating life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Jennifer Robertson
It's liberty for all, democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial.
The Rolling Stones
We expect a similar level of commitment from Liberty in the new situation.
Bert Holtkamp
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman
Many foreigners are deprived of their liberty, some with legal residence papers, some claiming asylum, who say they have been arrested arbitrarily and are not able to contest the validity of their detention.
Leila Zerrougui
Liberty can never be secure when the judicial branch declares its impotence.
Sabin Willett
For Jefferson and Liberty.
Oscar Brand
Terribly disappointed about the decision to deprive Mark of his liberty while he pursues his appeals.
Charles Stillman
The liberty and life of a fellow citizen is now in your hands.
Ed Garland
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