I would rather not be a king
than to forfeit my liberty.
?Phaedrus
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk
in insidious encroachment by men of zeal --
well-meaning but without understanding.
?Louis D. Brandeis
I would fight for my liberty so long
as my strength lasted, and if the
time came for me to go,
the Lord would let them take me.
?Harriet Tubman
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
?Marcus T. Cicero
I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy.
?John Adams
One's liberty should end when it
becomes the curse of his neighbor.
?Frederick Farrar
Give me the liberty to know, to utter,
and to argue freely according
to conscience, above all liberties.
?John Milton
I know not what course others may take; but
as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
?Patrick Henry
For what is liberty but the unhampered
translation of will into act?
?Georges Jacques Danton
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
?Thomas Jefferson
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
?Jeremy Bentham
Disobedience is the true foundation of
liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
?Henry David Thoreau
Liberty, as it is conceived by current
opinion, has nothing inherent about it;
it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed
on the individual by the
state pending good behavior.
?Mary McCarthy
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint;
responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally
free individual is responsible to himself.
?Henry Brooks Adams
Liberty means responsibility.
That is why most men dread it.
?George Bernard Shaw
A great work is made out of a combination
of obedience and liberty.
?Nadia Boulanger
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have
unless you are willing to give it to others.
?William Allen White
