Liberty

(41 votes)   It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.

M. Grundler

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(245 votes)   What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(198 votes)   The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(191 votes)   Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(188 votes)   The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

Margot Asquith
1864-1945, British Socialite

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(179 votes)   Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil s.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(168 votes)   Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(138 votes)   Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(134 votes)   Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(126 votes)   How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(117 votes)   The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(114 votes)   What light is to the eyes -- what air is to the lungs -- what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

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(106 votes)   The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(105 votes)   A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(100 votes)   Liberty has never come from 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.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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