Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Give me liberty or a bran muffin!
Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.