Quotes about Liberty
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
— Emily Bronte
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
— George Washington
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
— Edmund Burke
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
— Edmund Burke
That no man of what estate or condition, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of law.
— Anonymous
Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.
— Anonymous
No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
— Anonymous
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
— Anonymous
Free at last, free at last,Thank God Almighty, we're free at last.
— Anonymous
Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.
— Anonymous
The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
— Francine Rivers
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution
— Ronald Reagan