Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty."

~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper  

"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'"

~ Bishop Desmond Tutu  

"Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations."

~ Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine  

"By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks are turned to the earth more than to Heaven; they are the partisans of liberty, not only as the source of the noblest virtues, but more especially as the root of all solid advantages; and they sincerely desire to extend its sway, and to impart its blessings to mankind. It is natural that they should hasten to invoke the assistance of religion, for they must know that liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith; but they have seen religion in the ranks of their adversaries, and they inquire no further; some of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established."

~ Algernon Sidney  

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal."

~ Henry Giles  

"The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule."

~ John Locke  

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

~ Walt Whitman  

"Do you wish to be free?
Then above all things, love God,
love your neighbor,
love one another,
love the common weal;
then you will have true liberty."

~ Girolamo Savonarola  

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

~ II Corinthians  

"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners."

~ Isaiah  

"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being."

~ Lord Acton  

"History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of "self-evident truths" grounded in the "laws of nature and nature's God," every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." "

~ Everett Piper  

"The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven."

~ John Dryden