Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life.
By nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
The only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.