Quotes about Liberty
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
— George W. Bush
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
— John Milton
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
— John Milton
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.
— James Madison