Quotes About Liberty

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

There's just this stage in a guy's life where they need to be free and have fun and just be independent and enjoy their life.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

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.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

If you can't protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." – Milton Friedman, Free to Choose

There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty…

Freedom is ugly, but is much more beautiful than slavery.

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.