Constitution Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

— Paul Singer

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

— Daniel Webster

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They…

— H. L. Mencken

The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we have inherited…

— Henry Demarest Lloyd

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member…

— George Washington

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations on a…

— James F. Cooper

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower