| "liberty has never come from the government. liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." »Nadia Boulanger |
| "If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it." »Joyce Carol Oates |
| "The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington |
| "The Statue of liberty is not that monument's name. It is liberty Enlightening the World." »Deane Jordan |
| "If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making" »Herbert Spencer |
| "O liberty liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland |
| "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." »John Peter Zenger |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts." »Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| "Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland |
| "liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy |
| "Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty" »Jeseph Joubert |
| "Too much liberty corrupts us all." »Terence |
| "The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust |
| "To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty." »Anonymous |
| "liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." »William Allen White |
| "It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." »M. Grundler |
| "Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense." »Mark Twain |
| "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act" »Dante Alighieri |
| "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." »David Hume |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle |
| "Humanity has won its battle. liberty now has a country." »Marquis de Lafayette |
| "liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude." »Cicero |
| "Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty." »Henry Martyn Robert |
| "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." »Edward Everett Hale |
| "liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams |
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