Liberty Quotes

"In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains" "When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interest which is thereby designated." "Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once." "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos" "In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order" "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free" "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears" "Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent." "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "Freedom is control in your own life" "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand."