Liberty Quotes

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

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?