11 Quotes Regarding Liberty


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

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George

Give me Liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean J. Rousseau

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster