It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
All spiritual liberty is from the Spirit of adoption; whatever else is pretended, is licentiousness.
—John Owen
We by sin have brought upon ourselves a miserable slavery and bondage; God has made provision for our liberty.
—Jonathan Edwards
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
—George Orwell
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
—George Washington
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
—Charlie Chaplin
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
—John Milton
Thank God for the one who came to set a liberty those who are bruised. In your pain and your agony, cry out to him, and he will give you the relief.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
—George Washington
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
—Henry David Thoreau
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
—Julius Caesar
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
—Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
—Thomas Jefferson
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
—Georg Hegel
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Herein appears the depth of the wisdom of God, in his adorable providence; in governing men, so as not to destroy either their understanding, will, or liberty.
—John Wesley
Nothing is impossible to him that believeth: You can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth you. Do valiantly; and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.
—John Wesley
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
—Sigmund Freud
The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, Jesus loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.
—D. L. Moody
I don’t think any man or woman knows what true liberty is until they have been set free by the Lord Jesus Christ.
—D. L. Moody
God never led anyone astray yet, or into error yet; He leads out of darkness into light; He leads from bondage into liberty; He leads from error into truth.
—D. L. Moody
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
—Thomas Aquinas
“You have now no liberty to serve another, you are the sworn soldiers of the Crucified.”
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen