Sure Give Me Liberty Quotes

#1. We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Jeff Sessions

#2. Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. 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

#5. I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

William McKinley

#7. To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#8. As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#9. Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

Walter E. Williams

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

Vano Merabishvili

#12. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Wendy Goerl

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

Susan Cain

#14. I give you back your liberty, Christine, on condition that this ring is always on your finger. As long as you keep it, you will be protected against all danger and Erik will remain your friend. But woe to you if you ever part with it, for Erik will have his revenge!

Gaston Leroux

#15. 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

#16. If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

Frederic Bastiat

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

Todd Garlington

#18. 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

#19. The laws of certain states ... give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property ... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war ... thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.

Alexander Hamilton

#20. To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

John Ashcroft

#21. "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Horace

#22. Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

Francine Rivers

#24. I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#25. To educate man is to give him a liberty for life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

George Sutherland

#27. No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

H.L. Mencken

#28. "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

#29. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

#30. Way back in 1755 Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." With

Hillary Rodham Clinton