Quotes about liberty
136 quotes from 75 people
George W. Bushborn 1946Remarks to the People of Hungary (June 22, 2006)
John C. Calhoun1782–1850Speech in the Senate (January 1848)The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Farewell Address (January 1981)It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
- CCConstitutional ConventionThe Constitution of the United States (September 17, 1787), PreambleIn context
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Authority and Religious Liberty (1924)It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran1750–1817Speech upon the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin (10 July 1790)
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p. 39Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter VIn context
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963John Brown: A Biography (1909): “The Legacy of John Brown”
Will Durant1885–1981Declaration of INTERdependence (1945)I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
Erasmus1466–1536Spongia adversus aspergines Hutteni (1523), § 176, As quoted in Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1900) by Ephraim Emerton, p. 377
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor
