--- title: "9 Liberty Want Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Liberty Want quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Liberty Want sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/laurence-stallings-63214_friendship_is-that-the-craig-jurgesen-thatteddy-roo_915475.jpg" --- > [Is that the Craig Jurgesen thatTeddy Roosevelt gave you?... And you used it at San Juan Hill defending liberty. Now you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-stallings/is-that-the-craig-jurgesen-thatteddy-roosevelt-gave-you-and-you-used/) [Laurence Stallings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-stallings/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/laurence-stallings-63214_friendship_is-that-the-craig-jurgesen-thatteddy-roo_915475.jpg) > [How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rand-paul/how-much-liberty-do-with-want-to-give-up-for-a-false-sense-of-security/) [Rand Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rand-paul/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/842/rand-paul-606_cybersecurity_how-much-liberty-do-with-want-to-give-up_1109267.jpg) > [“I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth...We confuse facts with truth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/farley-mowatt/i-will-take-any-liberty-i-want-with-facts-as-long-as-i-don-t-trespass/) [Farley Mowatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/farley-mowatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f30/farley-mowatt-237257_freedom_i-will-take-any-liberty-i-want-with-fact_2389646.jpg) > [I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/i-believe-in-only-one-thing-liberty-but-i-do-not-believe-in-liberty/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/h-l-mencken-245_believe_i-believe-in-only-one-thing-liberty-but_61370.png) > [When my grandchildren ask, 'Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?' I want to make sure I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-perez/when-my-grandchildren-ask-where-were-you-when-donald-trump-took-a/) [Tom Perez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-perez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f13/tom-perez-2700_america_when-my-grandchildren-ask-where-were-you_2513795.jpg) > [There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-have-been-in-this-century-only-one-great-man-and-one-great/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b82/victor-hugo-32_century_there-have-been-in-this-century-only-one_3008233.jpg) > [The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-lapierre/the-national-rifle-association-all-that-we-believe-in-and-fight-for/) [Wayne LaPierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-lapierre/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/wayne-lapierre-3321_amendment_the-national-rifle-association-all-that_2520356.png) > [“...We don't defeat our enemy by giving him a platform to spread the very propaganda they hope will defeat you... You can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-michael-hopf/we-don-t-defeat-our-enemy-by-giving-him-a-platform-to-spread-the-very/) [G. Michael Hopf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-michael-hopf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/g-michael-hopf-71981_freedom_we-don-t-defeat-our-enemy-by-giving-him_547786.jpg) > [“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafe-esquith/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-i-realized-then-where-the/) [Rafe Esquith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafe-esquith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98e/rafe-esquith-15671_freedom_life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-happines_461645.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberty-want/#itemlist", "name": "Liberty Want Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Is that the Craig Jurgesen thatTeddy Roosevelt gave you?... 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