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Quotes About Liberty

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
~ Michael Bloomberg
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
~ Jimmy Carter
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom and slavery are mental states.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Financial independence is about having more choices.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
~ Roger Ebert
You don't need to hold them, Just let them choose if they want to stay or be free.You're not a rope, You're a magnet.
~ Bradley B. Dalina
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
~ Thelonious Monk
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
~ Ayn Rand
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
~ Voltaire
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
~ Christopher Gadsden
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
~ James Madison
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
~ Harold Laski
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
~ Tacitus
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.
~ Lysander Spooner
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
~ Jonathan Swift
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
~ Plato