But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Liberty, Wisdom – Edmund Burke
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde – Liberty
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
Benjamin Franklin – Knowledge, Liberty
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin – Essential Liberty
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Liberty
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams – Liberty
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Brooks Adams – Liberty
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell – Liberty
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
