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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

– David Lloyd GeorgeRate it:

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

– CiceroRate it:

Liberty is the essential ingredient to live a happy life.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

– Clarence DarrowRate it:

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

– William Allen WhiteRate it:

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

– Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)Rate it:

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

– John WinthropRate it:

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

– AnonymousRate it:

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

– James Madison, Federalist 10Rate it:

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

– Learned Hand, juristRate it:

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

– John Stewart MillRate it:

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

– James MadisonRate it:

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

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

– Felix FrankfurterRate it:

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 ColtonRate it:

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

– John F. KennedyRate it:

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

– John AdamsRate it:

Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

– Henri Frdric AmielRate it:

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

– Henri-Frédéric AmielRate it:

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

– Henry Wheeler ShawRate it:

Liberty--liberty within the law--and civilization are inseparable, and though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative government is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both.

– Warren G. HardingRate it:

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

– Germaine GreerRate it:

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

– Vartan GregorianRate it:

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