Liberty Quote

Many wars are fought for liberty. Many lives are lost in these wars for liberty. On the one hand, I dislike romanticizing war and conflict. On the other, wars are not necessarily those that are fought with guns and militaries. Each one of us fights for our own liberty every single day. Here is a list of liberty quotes that celebrate the spirit and significance of liberty.

Aristotle
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

John Acton
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

James Madison
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

John Adams
Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Henry B. Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Clarence Darrow
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.