If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state of individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. - Plato
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.' - 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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. - Plato
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. - Noam Chomsky
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. - Plutarch
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - John D. Rockefeller
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. - Abraham Lincoln
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. - Will Durant
The humiliating difference between laymen and clergymen must disappear, and equality spring from true liberty. - Immanuel Kant
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. - Benjamin Franklin
He is a slave with a semblance of liberty which is worse than the most cruel slavery. - George Orwell
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