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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel."
Patrick Henry
"The people are their own liberators."
Nelson Mandela
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
John F. Kennedy
"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 Adams
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
Aristotle
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
George Washington
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
John F. Kennedy
"I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry
"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
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
Thomas Paine
"The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
George Washington
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
Edmund Burke
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