Top 40 Quotes on Liberty (2024 Update)

1. “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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2. “When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

3. “Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”

— Edmund Burke

4. “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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5. “Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”

— Jules Renard

6. “Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.”

— Ayn Rand

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7. “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”

— Karl Marx

8. “My country is wherever liberty lives.”

— Thomas Paine

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9. “The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”

— Thomas Jefferson

10. “Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”

— Voltaire

11. “The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.”

— Alexander Hamilton

12. “So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.”

— George Lucas

13. “Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

14. “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

— Milton Friedman

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15. “Discipline must come through liberty.”

— Maria Montessori

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16. “Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.”

— Albert Camus

17. “In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.”

— Greg Laurie

18. “Where there is no law there is no freedom.”

— John Locke

19. “Individual liberty is individual power.”

— John Quincy Adams

20. “Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”

— Ayn Rand

21. “Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.”

— Henry David Thoreau

22. “To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.”

— Pandurang Shastri Athavale

23. “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”

— George Washington

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24. “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

— Charles Dickens

25. “If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.”

— Ron Paul

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26. “No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

— Ernest Hemingway

27. “America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.”

— James Bovard

28. “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

— Milton Friedman

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29. “Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.”

— Will Durant

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30. “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”

— Calvin Coolidge

31. “Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

32. “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

— Karl Marx

33. “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.”

— George Mason

34. “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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35. “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

— Ayn Rand

36. “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

37. “Money for me has only one sound: liberty.”

— Coco Chanel

38. “Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”

— Louisa May Alcott

39. “Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.”

— Elizabeth Loftus

40. “God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.”

— Allan Kardec

41. “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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