“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”
“I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.”
“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
“Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.”
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
“One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.”
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.”
“We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.”
“Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
“There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.”
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.”
“Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.”
“Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”
“They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
“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.”
“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.”
“They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.”
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”