Quotes about liberty
136 quotes from 75 people
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906Speech at the 38th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Baltimore (15 February 1906)
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, book IV, 1291.b34
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945Please Use Your Liberty to Promote Ours (1997)America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986The Second Sex (1949), Conclusion
Jeremy Bentham1748–1832Principles of Legislation (1830), Ch. X: Analysis of Political Good and Evil; How they are spread in society
Annie Besant1847–1933The Political Thought of Annie Besant, p. 104
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Simón Bolívar1783–1830Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John GerassiThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)- Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)- Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
