Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

~ Will Rogers  

"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it."

~ William Cowper  

~ William Ellery Channing  

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

~ Thomas Paine  

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

~ Thucydides  

"Easier were it
To hurl the rooted mountain from its base
Than force the yoke of slavery upon men
Determin'd to be free."

~ Robert Southey  

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

~ Rudyard Kipling  

"Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth, -- the result of free individual action, energy, and independence."

~ Samuel Smiles  

"Few persons enjoy real liberty;
we are all slaves to ideas or habits."

~ Louis Charles Alfred de Musset  

"The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that
we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

~ Mencius  

"Liberty is to the collective body
what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;
without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."

~ Henry St. John  

"There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature
and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right
to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make
themselves so, if they please."

~ James Otis  

~ Lord Byron