Liberty Quotes

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.

Discipline is liberation.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Every girl and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

I like to say now that the reason I’m conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.