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Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

Give me liberty, or give me death.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.