Quotes about Liberty
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
- Herman Melville
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
- John Milton
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
- James Madison
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
- Samuel Rutherford
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.
- Ronald Reagan
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.
- Thomas Monson
We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.
- Ronald Reagan