Liberty & Independence

Category Liberty

Here are some insightful quotes about liberty along with their authors:

“Give me liberty, or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” — George Washington

“I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

“Liberty: One of imagination’s most precious possessions.” — Ambrose Bierce

“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” — General John Stark

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.” — Unknown

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” — Emma Goldman

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” — Pope John Paul II

Category Independence

Here are some insightful quotes about independence along with their authors:

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” — Thomas Paine

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” — Denis Waitley

“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” — Brigham Young

“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.” — David Ben-Gurion

“Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.” — Chaim Weizmann

“Independence is happiness.” — Susan B. Anthony

“Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.” — John Adams

“There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.” — Daniel Webster