quotations about liberty
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
MAX STIRNER
The Ego and Its Own
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
"Importance of Religion to Society", The Works of William E. Channing
Please use your liberty to promote ours.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
"Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours", International Herald Tribune, Feb. 4, 1997
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, Apr. 3, 1777
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.
GILBERT DU MOTIER
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
PATRICK HENRY
speech on the Federal Constitution at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Jun. 5, 1788