Quotes About Liberty

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.