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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.