| "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 |
| "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 |
| "How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." »Albert Einstein |
| "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 |
| "Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle |
| "liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy |
| "No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne |
| "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill |
| "No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne |
| "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill |
| "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill |
| "I could have spoken from Rhode island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Too much liberty corrupts us all." »Terence |
| "Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty" »Jeseph Joubert |
| "It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." »M. Grundler |
| "liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." »William Allen White |
| "The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust |
| "To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty." »Anonymous |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." »Aristotle |
| "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." »David Hume |
| "For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act" »Dante Alighieri |
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