Freedom
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
—Thomas Jeferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
—Samuel Bowles (1826-1878 American journalist)
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
—Edward Robert Bulwer-lytton (1831-1891 British politician and poet)
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
—William Allen White (1868-1944 American journalist)
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
—John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 British philosopher)
No one can be perfectly free till all are free.
—Herbert Spencer (1820-1903 British philosopher)
Escape complexities and superfluities and extravagances, only so can you live a free life.
—Diogenes (ca. 412-323 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
—George Washington (1732-1799 1st President of the United States)
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.
—Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924 28th President of the United States)
Liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that keeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be conflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826 3rd President of the United States)
Among a people general corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
—Edmund Burke (1729-1797 British politician and orator)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
—Thomas Paine (1737-1809 Amencan author)
Give me liberty, or give me death.
—Patrick Henry (1736-1799 American politician and orator)