Quotes about Liberty

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

The only liberty that is valuable 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.