Top 100 Quotes on Liberty (2025 Update)
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51. “Responsibility is the price of freedom.”

— Elbert Hubbard

52. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

— Abraham Lincoln

53. “Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

54. “What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

55. “Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.”

— Jerry Pournelle

56. “As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.”

— Charlie Chaplin

57. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

— George Orwell

58. “In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

— Phillis Wheatley

59. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

— Ronald Reagan

60. “I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

61. “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

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Jules Renard

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Karl Marx

67. “My country is wherever liberty lives.”

— Thomas Paine

68. “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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— George Lucas

72. “Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Milton Friedman

74. “Discipline must come through liberty.”

— Maria Montessori

75. “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

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

— Greg Laurie

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

— John Locke

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

— Ayn Rand

79. “Individual liberty is individual power.”

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Pandurang Shastri Athavale

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

— George Washington

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— James Bovard

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— Will Durant

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

91. “Democracy is the road to socialism.”

— Karl Marx

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

— George Mason

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

— Thomas Jefferson

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Coco Chanel

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Elizabeth Loftus

99. “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

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

— Thomas Jefferson