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So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
Author: Robert Browning
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
Author: Felix Frankfurter
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Author: Goethe
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right.
Author: Learned Hand
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By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Author: Cyril James
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Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
Author: Montesquieu
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It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
Author: Blaise Pascal
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Author: Earl Warren
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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Author: Daniel Webster
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Author: Thomas Paine
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Author: Will Rogers
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
Author: Cicero
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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 the success of liberty.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Author: Voltaire
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Where liberty is, there is my country.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Author: John Adams
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