Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Freedom's soil hath only place
For a free and fearless race!"

~ John Greenleaf Whittier  

"Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty."

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland  

"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency."

~ James Madison  

"They can only set free men free ...
And there is no need of that:
Free men set themselves free."

~ James Oppenheim  

"The wish, which ages have not yet subdued
In man, to have no master save his mood."

~ Lord Byron  

~ Epictetus  

"Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind
under a republican form of government than any other."

~ George Washington  

"I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power."

~ George Washington  

"If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor."

~ George Stillman Hillard  

"Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance."

~ John Ruskin  

"True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all."

~ Katherine Mansfield  

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

~ Henry Brooks Adams  

"I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran."

~ John Dryden  

"The cry of the soul is for freedom.
It longs for liberty, from the date
of its first conscious moments."

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland