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If you wanna be free, you’ve gotta accept everything.
JMJason Mechalek
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Speech in Philadelphia (1776)
- Liberty
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Liberty
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address (1989)
- Government
- Liberty
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
- Government
- Liberty
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Laws
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
- Liberty
The people are their own liberators.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013
- Liberty
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. II, p. 393
- Liberty
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865A House Divided (1858)
- America
- Slavery
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton1608–1674
- Liberty
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
E. B. White1899–1985
- Liberty
Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
- Debate