Quotes About Liberty

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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams

Those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin