Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Lord Acton

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von Hayek

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Henrik Ibsen

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
Annie Besant

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Jonathan Edwards

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil