Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James Madison

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison

Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Douglas MacArthur

This young century will be liberty's century.
George W. Bush

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
George W. Bush