1. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.-Harry Emerson Fosdick
2. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.-George Washington
3. Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.-Will Rogers
4. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.-George Bernard Shaw
5. Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.-Roger W Hancock
6. Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.-John F. Kennedy
7. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.-William Hazlitt
8. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.-Learned Hand
9. I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
10. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.-Aristotle
11. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.-Henry Adams
12. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.-Khalil Gibran
13. The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.-Lyn Nofziger
14. Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.-Isaiah Berlin
15. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.-Edmund Burke
16. There can be no liberty without the law.-Cecil B. DeMille
17. Liberty is the only thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.-William Allen White
18. When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.-Oscar Wilde
19. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.-George Orwell
20. The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.-Voltaire
21. Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.-Hugo Grotius
22. Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost; and not until we live in a society where each can exercise his right of sovereignty at all times without clashing with or violating that of others.-Josiah Warren
23. Our liberty will not be secured at the sword’s point… We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.-Jose Rizal
24. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.-Walter Lippmann
25. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.-Sigmund Freud
26. Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.-John Adams
27. Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.-Plato
28. Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and His works.-Frederic Bastiat
29. Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.-Charles Caleb Colton