Liberty Quotations

Quotations about our ideals of liberty, freedom, and justice.

Showing 73 through 78 of 78 quotations in this category.

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."

-Ignazio Silone

"If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free."

-Tim Robbins

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

-Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

-George Washington

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

-Thomas Paine