My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases read more

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of
tyrants.
[Fr., L'arbre de la liberte read more

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of
tyrants.
[Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ne croit qu'arrose par le sang des
tyrans.]

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.

Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.

Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams