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Quotes About Liberty

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
~ Ronald Reagan
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I believe we must choose the path to faith, freedom and individual liberty. It starts with us, here today, now, Working together, with God's favor, we can save the America that we love.
~ T.W. Shannon
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
~ William O. Douglas
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
~ Jeff B. Davis
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
~ John Donne
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.
~ Ronald Reagan
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
~ B. W. Powe
It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
~ Toussaint Louverture
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.
~ Thomas Paine
L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).
~ Bertrand Barere
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~ John Adams
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
~ Joseph Stalin
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
~ Mary McCarthy
He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.
~ Norman Thomas
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
~ Frederick Douglass
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
~ Samuel Adams
I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.
~ Joseph Estrada