Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.