Liberty is the one thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord the weak.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Liberty, n. One of Imaginations most precious possessions.

Liberty is the soul's right to breath, and, when it can not take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Liberty, next to religion, has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

When liberty's position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

The true charter of liberty is independence, maintained by force.