Quotes about liberty
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There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)- Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Samuel Adams1722–1803The Rights of the Colonists (1772)- Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
James Madison1751–1836“Political Observations” (1795-04-20)
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814)
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)If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 224–25 (1953)The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., p. 114What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Essay in This I Believe: 2 (1952) edited by Edward R. Murrow, p. 142- Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Dissenting in Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
Ludwig von Mises1881–1973The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 10: The Concept of a Perfect System of Government