Liberty Quotations

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

Showing 73 through 80 of 80 quotations in this category.

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

-Voltaire

"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

"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."

-H. L. Mencken

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

-George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

-George Washington

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

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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