Liberty Proverbs
Sayings about Liberty
To whom you tell your secrets you resign your liberty. ~ Spanish ProverbTo receive a favor is to sell one's liberty. ~ Japanese Proverb
Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil’s. ~ German Proverb
Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. ~ French Proverb
Liberty has no price. ~ Spanish Proverb
He who accepts the gift loses his liberty. ~ Hungarian Proverb
A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. ~ Romanian Proverb
Those that marry for money sell their liberty. ~ Traditional Proverb
The narrower the cage, the sweeter the liberty. ~ German Proverb
Quotations about Liberty
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald ReaganNothing is more precious than independence and liberty. ~ Ho Chi Minh
When liberty returns, I will return. ~ Victor Hugo
Liberty is not to be had or held without effort. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. ~ John Milton
When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. ~ Edmund Burke
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ~ Patrick Henry
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ~ Khalil Gibran
The spirit of liberality is the spirit of heaven. ~ Ellen Gould White
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~ Dick Cheney
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters. ~ George Savile
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. ~ John P. Zenger
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~ Francis Wright
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ Bill Frist
Too much liberty corrupts us all. ~ Terence
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~ Woodrow Wilson
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. ~ Archibald MacLeish
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ~ Barry Goldwater
Where liberty dies, evil grows. ~ Hamid Karzai
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ~ David Lloyd George
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. ~ M. Grundler
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~ George Washington
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ~ Epictetus
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. ~ Edward F. Halifax
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ~ James Madison
If we really want liberty, then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now. ~ Michael Badnarik
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. ~ Edmund Burke
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. ~ Phaedrus
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ~ Lin Yutang
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ~ Sigmund Freud
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ~ John Milton
The more liberty you give away the more you will have. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ~ John Adams
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. ~ Daniel Webster
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ~ Douglas Macarthur
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~ H. L. Mencken
One of the indispensable foods for the human soul is liberty. ~ Simone Weil
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. ~ Charles De Montesquieu
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~ Edward Everett
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. ~ Daniel Webster
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. ~ T. S. Eliot
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. ~ Lord Mansfield
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake, of searching and experimenting, of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. ~ Ignazio Silone
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. ~ Woodrow T. Wilson
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ~ Oscar Wilde
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ~ Will Durant
This young century will be liberty's century. ~ George W. Bush
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. ~ Marquis de Lafayette
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~ Robert J. McCracken
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. ~ H. L. Mencken
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. ~ Henry Bolingbroke
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice. ~ Author Unknown
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~ Edmund Burke
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. ~ William Hazlitt
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. ~ Vladimir Lenin
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. ~ Lord Acton
The God, who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ~ William Allen White
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. ~ Ernest Benn
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? ~ Dante, Alighieri
The hope of America and the world is to regenerate liberty with its responsibilities and its obligations -- not to abandon it. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ~ Will Durant
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ~ Samuel Gompers
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. ~ Earl Warren
Where liberty is, there is my country. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The higher your station, the less your liberty. ~ Sallust
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.~ Margaret Thatcher
he hope of America and the world is to regenerate liberty with its responsibilities and its obligations -- not to abandon it. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. ~ Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. ~ Edmund Burke
Life without Liberty is far worse than death. ~ Hamid Karzai
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~ Will Rogers
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. ~ Angela Y. Davis
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ~ Philip Wylie
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. ~ Bryant H. McGill
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ~ Voltaire
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ~ John Adams
There can be no liberty that isn't earned. ~ Robert R. Young
One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. ~ Frederick Farrar
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~ Thomas Paine
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ~ David Lloyd George
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~ Baron de Montesquieu
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell