None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Hereditary Bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!