Quotes about Liberty

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The people ahead of you, living in the liberty of instinct-guided uniqueness, will welcome you, encourage you, and mentor you. They will inspire you to be a pioneer and not a poser. Only those incarcerated by their unwillingness to listen to their instincts and to take the risks required for success will seek to deter you.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.