Accustomed Quote by David Hume

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

— David Hume

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general…

— John Peter Zenger

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

— David Hume

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

— Alexandre Vinet

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty

— Samuel Johnson

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their…

— Walter Lippmann

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and…

— John Quincy Adams

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can…

— Etienne de La Boetie