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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even
his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he
establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit
of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a
flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than
to be able to decide.
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never
had it taken from you.
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must,
like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
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No one is free when others are oppressed.
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Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we
have.
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the
right to hear the music of our own opinions.
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O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority
with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it
brings.
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them
in a century.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an
organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of
freedoms and restraints.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the
will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens
up new roads.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit
of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a
flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves.
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Freedom means choosing your burden.
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to
take it away from themselves.
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Freedom is not enough.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the
grasp of executive power.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the
frying pan into the fire
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man
without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those
in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally
destructive.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their
children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And
their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without
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Without freedom, no one really has a name.
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