liberty Quotes

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Liberty is worth paying for”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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“liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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