Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. Montesquieu.

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Bolingbroke.

Liberty is to the lowest rank of every nation little more than the choice of working or starving. Johnson.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty as well as by the abuse of power. Madison.

Liberty must be a mighty thing, for by it 35 God punishes and rewards nations. Mme. Swetchine.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Burke.

Liberty of thinking and expressing our thoughts is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. Hume.

Liberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates us on the ground. Amiel.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. Washington.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people 40 must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Colton.