The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
