Liberty quotations

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◆ People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

- George Washington99

◆ Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

- Napoleon99

◆ Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

- Patrick Henry99

◆ The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

- John Philpot Curran99

◆ I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

- Thomas Jefferson99

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

- George Bernard Shaw99

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

- James Madison99

◆ A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

- John Adams99

◆ A right delayed is a right denied.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

- John F. Kennedy99

◆ The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

- Carson McCullers99

◆ I love my country, not my government.

- Jesse Ventura99