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Quotes About Liberty

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.
~ James Monroe
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
~ John Quincy Adams
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you love someone, set them free.
~ Sting
To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment.
~ William McKinley
The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor'än, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known.
~ William Muir
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
~ William O. Douglas
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
~ William O. Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
~ William O. Douglas
During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and
~ William Oddie
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
~ William Orville Douglas
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
~ William Orville Douglas
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.
~ William Penn
I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
Senseless or unnecessary rules should be done away with. As
~ William S. Lind
How did orders, whether federal, state, or local, meant to protect public health ever come to be seen as a restriction of rights or liberty? It happens when freedom becomes license unbounded by concern for others.
~ William Schweiker
Make not your thoughts you prisons.
~ William Shakespeare
Some to the common pulpits, and cry out,"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!"
~ William Shakespeare
So every bondman in his own hand bearsThe power to cancel his captivity.
~ William Shakespeare
Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.There's nothing situate under heaven's eyeBut hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.
~ William Shakespeare
Now my soul hath elbow-room.
~ William Shakespeare
And liberty plucks justice by the nose.
~ William Shakespeare