This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.
—Daniel Ellsberg
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
—Louis D. Brandeis
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
—Thomas Jefferson
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage.
—Fraser Tyler
Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty.
—Luciano De Crescenzo
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
—Robert Green Ingersoll
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
—George Lucas
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
—Frank Herbert
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law. In monarchies and empires physical force restrains the multitude and maintains government. In a democracy all depends on the intelligence and conscience of the people.
—John Ireland (bishop)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and
the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under
the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and
democracy?
—Mahatma Gandhi
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
—Kahlil Gibran
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
—George Washington
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
—Judge Gideon J. Tucker