Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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!

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.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

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

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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

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.

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.