Quotes about Liberty
Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.
— Desmond Tutu
Through discipline comes freedom.
— Aristotle
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
— George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
— GK Chesterton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee ,In unreproved pleasures free.
— John Milton
Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
— John Milton
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
— John Milton
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
— John Milton
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
— John Piper
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power: that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful nation on earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purpose of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.
— John Quincy Adams