Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Liberty is from God;
liberties, from the devil."

~ Berthold Auerbach  

"Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality."

~ James A. Garfield  

"He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"There are two freedoms --
the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where a man is free to do what he ought."

~ Charles Kingsley  

~ Daniel Webster  

~ Friedrich Nietzsche  

"Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace,
or after ages of conflict and war;
but come it will, and abide it will,
so long as the principles by which
it was acquired are held sacred."

~ Edward Everett  

"Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart."

~ George Washington  

"All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish."

~ Heinrich Heine  

"America, my friends, is the only country in the world
actually founded on liberty -- the only one.
People went to America to be free."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."

~ William Cowper  

"Void of freedom, what would virtue be?"

~ Alphonse de Lamartine  

"Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty."

~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper  

~ Ayn Rand