Quotes about Liberty
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
— Ayn Rand
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
— George Bernard Shaw
Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.
— George Bernard Shaw
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
— Michael Novak
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.
— Desmond Tutu
Through discipline comes freedom.
— Aristotle
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
— George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
— GK Chesterton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton