Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 1952 August 28th
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter
O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.... ~Albert Camus
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. ~D.H. Lawrence
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 1952 August 28th
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter
O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ~Will Rogers
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ~Mahatma Gandhi
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~Daniel Webster
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.... ~Albert Camus
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. ~D.H. Lawrence
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis
