Liberty Quotes
Self respect is impossible without liberty....Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Liberty is its own reward....President Woodrow Wilson.
Liberty means responsibility.
That is why most men dread it....George Bernard Shaw.
Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of limitations of
governmental power, not the increase of it....Nadia Boulanger.
It is harder to preserve than to
obtain liberty....Vice President John C. Calhoun.
Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and
the principles of human liberty....Daniel Webster.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure
the survival and success of liberty....John F. Kennedy.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but
downright force. Whenever you give up that force,
you are inevitably ruined....Patrick Henry.
It is in vain, Sir, to extenuate the matter.
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! But there is
no peace. The war is actually begun! The next
gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our
ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are
already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is
it that Gentlemen want? What would they have? Is life
so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the
price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!....Patrick Henry.
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty
and independence? It is not...the guns of our war
steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined
army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God
has planted in our bosoms....Abraham Lincoln.
Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security
deserve neither security nor liberty....Benjamin Franklin.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of
government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded
as particularly hostile to republican liberty....George Washington.
The love of liberty is the love of others;
the love of power is the love of ourselves....William Hazlitt.
When we prohibit others from being different,
we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty....John Webster.
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