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

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.