Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
Charles de Montesquieu

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Personal liberty is not personal license.
Billy Sunday

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Billy Sunday

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore De Balzac

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
Mikhail Bakunin

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
Mikhail Bakunin

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
Mikhail Bakunin

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert