Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham

Liberty is worth paying for.
Jules Verne

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Muhammad Iqbal

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
John Acton

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
John Acton

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
John Acton

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
Alice Paul

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.
June Carter Cash

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Earl Warren