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The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. - Charles I Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, France--An Ode (V) Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Charles Caleb Colton If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. - John Cotton, Limitations of Government, in Perry Miller's "The American Puritans" (1956) The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. - Abraham Cowley But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. - William Cowper 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. - William Cowper, Task (bk. V, l. 446) Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. - William Cowper, Task (bk. V, l. 882) Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - John Philpot Curran, Speech, Dublin The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. - John Philpot Curran, Speech To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.] - Denis Diderot The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. - John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite (bk. II, l. 291) O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. - Sir Edward Dyer Liberty is a slow fruit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. - Quintus Ennius Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. - Harry Emerson Fosdick The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. - Benjamin Franklin, in correspondence They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, motto to Historical Review of Pennsylvania Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - Benjamin Franklin Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. - James Abram Garfield Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. - William Lloyd Garrison Liberty is worth whatever the best civilization is worth. - Henry Giles Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. - Henry Giles He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Displaying page 2 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6
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