You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only read more

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is read more

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart--
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it read more

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and
madness, without tuition or restraint.