Quotes About Liberty

Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.

My country 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring...

The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

Washington is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name, an eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor, leave it shining on.

In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

If there is any thing which may properly be called happiness here below, I am persuaded it is in the union of two persons who love each other with perfect liberty, who are united by a secret inclination, and satisfied with each other's merit; their hearts are full and leave no vacancy for any other passion; they enjoy perpetual tranquillity, because they enjoy content

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeriauntil the nation becomes homogeneous.

Freedom abhors the spirit of slavery.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, "The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.

Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Poor Cassy!" said Emmeline, "don't feel so! If the Lord gives us liberty, perhaps he'll give you back your daughter; at any rate, I'll be like a daughter to you. I know I'll never see my poor old mother again! I shall love you, Cassy, whether you love me or not!

It's a free country, sir; the man's mine, and I do what I please with him,—that's it!