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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774); The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 1, p. 211
- God
- Liberty
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14
- Forgiveness
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
- Liberty
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Wilson’s War Message to Congress (1917)
- Democracy
- Liberty
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Abigail Adams (7 July 1775)
- Liberty
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)In context
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
- Liberty
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.
Winston Churchill1874–1965United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
- Honor
- Justice
I believe the slave trade to be by far the foulest crime that taints the history of mankind in any Christian or pagan country.
William Ewart Gladstone1809–1898Speech in the House of Commons (19 March 1850)
- Slavery
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (1909): The Rejected Statement, Pt. I: The Limits to Toleration
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison1751–1836“Outline” notes (September 1829), in The Writings of James Madison (1910) by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 9, p. 357
- America
- Liberty
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann1889–1974The Good Society (1937), Ch. XII: “The Political Principles of Liberalism”, §6, p. 267
- Government
- Justice
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790“Apology for Printers” (1730)
- Journalism
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Birth of a New Nation (1957)