Liberty Quotes

Free will and responsibility are the two main pillars of liberty. It means that true independence occurs only when an individual acting as per his free will understand that he is, at all times, bound by the responsibly of his actions. Independence maybe a cherished and celebrated gift but its actual spirit can only be understood in the light of both the concepts that make it complete. Read the next piece of work to understand what the world thinks about the concepts of liberty and independence.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
Law
Stephen Breyer

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
People Sermon Groundwork Security
Thomas Jefferson

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Safety
Benjamin Franklin

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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Death Right Mind
Harriet Tubman

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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Life Body Politics
Khalil Gibran

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The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.
People Law
James Comey

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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Experience
Harriet Tubman

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Misuse Power
James Madison

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Men Opinion Paradox Sarcasm
Soren Kierkegaard

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It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Vladimir Lenin

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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney

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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Independence Day Belief Proverbs Restraint
David Lloyd George

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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Equality Religion
B. R. Ambedkar

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Politics Wars Mathematics
John Adams

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.
People Women
Susan B. Anthony

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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.
Patriotism Success Support Success
John F. Kennedy

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Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.
Justice
Brett Kavanaugh

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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Men Independence Day Observation Equality
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
History
Woodrow Wilson

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Conscience
John Milton

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
People Freedom Knowledge
John Adams

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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
World Hope
James Madison

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Meaningful Independence Day Attitude Perception
David Lloyd George

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Knowledge
James Madison

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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Men Blame Confidential Disgrace
Thomas Hobbes

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Anxiety Confusion Curiosity Fear
Soren Kierkegaard

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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Nothing Democracy Equality
Alexis de Tocqueville

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Excitement Nature
Alexander Hamilton

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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
People Freedom Government
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
Freedom
Jon Stewart

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Wisdom
John Milton

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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Faith
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
Country Government
Mitch McConnell

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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
Women Government
Susan B. Anthony

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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Life Meaningful Accountability Nature
Thomas Hobbes

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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek

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During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
Life
Julian Assange

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
Justice
Stephen Breyer

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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
Greatness Country
Ted Cruz

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Democracy Autocracy
Plato

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

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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Men Truth
Benito Mussolini

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Truth Freedom Home
James Madison

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And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Hatred Humanity
Tony Blair

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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz

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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
World
George Santayana

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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Wisdom Freedom
Benjamin Franklin

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All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
John Wayne

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
America Opinion
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Democracy
Alexander Hamilton

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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Jealousy
George Washington

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
People
John Stuart Mill

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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Power
Ronald Reagan

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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.
Love
Woodrow Wilson

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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
Health
John Adams

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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Life Happiness
Jimmy Carter

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The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
Bequest
Ted Cruz

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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Love Time
Alexander Hamilton

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
People Government Happiness
James Madison

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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Life
Dan Quayle

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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Power
John Adams

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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Politics
Sandra Day O'Connor

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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
Order Conflict Favoritism
B. R. Ambedkar

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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Right
John Adams

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Vision America
Woodrow Wilson

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Government
George Washington

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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Life Honor
Miguel de Cervantes

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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Religion
Alexis de Tocqueville

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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
Nothing
Andrew Jackson

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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Pleasure
Hermann Hesse

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Equality
Abraham Lincoln

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Power
George Washington

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We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Life Right
Susan B. Anthony

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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Struggles
Susan B. Anthony

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Freedom Responsibility
George Bernard Shaw

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
Happiness
James Madison

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Power
Francis Bacon

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Money
Robert Louis Stevenson

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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Learning Light
Benjamin Disraeli

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Enemies Wars
James Madison

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If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
Kevin Costner

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If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
People Wars Lonliness
Margaret Thatcher

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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
Support Learning
James Madison

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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
Power
George W. Bush

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Civilization
Sigmund Freud

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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
Life
Ted Cruz

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
World People
H. L. Mencken

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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
Truth Goals
Albert Camus

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
World Hatred
William Blake

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Capitalism Principles
Bertrand Russell

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Youth
Michel de Montaigne

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Boredom Freedom
Aldous Huxley

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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
Blessings
James Madison

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Restraint
John Ruskin

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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
Life Variety
Noam Chomsky

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