It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.Barack Obama
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.Plato
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
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.Benjamin Franklin
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?James Madison
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.Albert Camus
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.Charlie Dent
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Barry Goldwater
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.Benjamin Franklin
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.Abraham Lincoln
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.William Lloyd Garrison
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Woodrow Wilson
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.Edmund Burke
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.Patrick Henry
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.Thomas Jefferson