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Liberty Quotes

Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work…We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust.

– Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.

This country is leaving its chrysalis. We are re-emerging after decades of hibernation as a campaigner for global free trade. And frankly, it is not a moment too soon, because the argument for this fundamental liberty is now not being made.

– Boris Johnson

Feb 3, 2020 speech on Brexit.

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

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

All government, of course, is against liberty.

– H. L. Mencken

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

– Henry Cabot Lodge

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

– Harriet Tubman

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

– Gunnar Myrdal

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

– H. L. Mencken

If you’re so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you’re a Republican. If you’re kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you’re a Democrat.

– Grover Norquist

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

– Harriet Tubman

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

– George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

– George Bernard Shaw

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

– Hanoi Hannah

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

– Henry Knox

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

– Ho Chi Minh

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

– Hermann Hesse

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

– Hamid Karzai

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

– Oscar Wilde

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

– Henry David Thoreau

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

– Herbert Marcuse

There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty and the dignity of the unborn. Mrs. Clinton promises she will not.

– Jerry Falwell, Jr.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

– James Madison

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

– J. Reuben Clark

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

– James Madison

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

– Jhumpa Lahiri

It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.

– James Lankford

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

– James Madison

Liberty is worth paying for.

– Jules Verne

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