Give Me Liberty Quotes

#1. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

#2. Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Colin Mochrie

#3. Give me liberty, or give me death.

Thomas Paine

#4. Give me liberty or give me gout?! Ok, who's been messing with this?

Patrick Henry

#5. Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

Orrin Woodward

#6. He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

Randy Glasbergen

#7. Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

Colin Mochrie

#8. 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

#9. To sound off with a cheerful 'give me liberty or give me death' sort of argument in the face of the unprecedented and inconceivable potential of destruction in nuclear warfare is not even hollow; it is downright ridiculous.

Hannah Arendt

#10. Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into. -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill

Katherine Applegate

#11. we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death!

Susan Cain

#12. Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month.

J.R. Moehringer

#13. Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Todd Garlington

#14. "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. Give me liberty, or give me death! While we're at it, I would also like a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Patrick Henry

#16. and the first words I learnt, were to express my desire "that he would please give me my liberty;" which I every day repeated on my knees. His

Jonathan Swift

#17. Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#18. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

#20. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing
will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.

Patrick Henry

#21. Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#22. There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

Walter E. Williams

#23. My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

A.R. Rahman

#24. Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Sumner

#25. Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#26. Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

Alexander Pope

#27. The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and yelling "You want a piece of me?

Robin Williams

#28. I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

Woody Allen

#29. My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Vano Merabishvili