Liberty Quotes

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Virtue is the truest liberty.

— Owen Feltham

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

— Susan B. Anthony

Liberty is not enough.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A caged canary is safe but not free.

— Walter E. Williams

“Faith is freedom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Joblessness gives you liberty”

— Sunday Adelaja

“With liberty comes responsibility.”

— Ronald H. Zuccaro

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

— John C. Calhoun

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

— Richard Perle

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

— Alan Dershowitz

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

— David Lloyd George

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

— John Milton

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

— Barbara Amiel

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

— Edmund Burke

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being.

— Morris Joseph

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

— Harry Browne

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

— Mary Astell

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and…

— Mark Pesce

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in…

— George W. Bush

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other…

— Anonymous

This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be…

— Frank I. Cobb

I believe that in America, freedom and individual liberty will, in the end, always triumph over class division and collectivism with voters…

— Robert C. O'Brien

“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent…

— George MacDonald

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be…

— George W. Bush

The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof…

— William Pitt

A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an…

— John Stuart Mill

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost.…

— Harry Browne

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are…

— John Stuart Mill

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it…

— Harry S. Truman

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself.…

— John Wesley

I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The…

— Frederick Douglass

Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all…

— Anonymous

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it…

— Ayn Rand