Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
The Vision
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”
"1968-2008" (2008)
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Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
"Modern Times"
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“These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they died for us.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Memorial Day Vision. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
Context: These heroes are dead. They died for liberty — they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars — they are at peace. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
Speech on the Federal Constitution, Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788).
1780s
Alan O. Ebenstein (1959) American political scientist, educator and author
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”
Will Durant book The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
If another man has not the right to think, you have not even the right to think that he thinks wrong. If every man has not the right to think, the people of New Jersey had no right to make a statute, or to adopt a constitution — no jury has the right to render a verdict, and no court to pass its sentence.
In other words, without liberty of thought, no human being has the right to form a judgment. It is impossible that there should be such a thing as real religion without liberty. Without liberty there can be no such thing as conscience, no such word as justice. All human actions — all good, all bad — have for a foundation the idea of human liberty, and without Liberty there can be no vice, and there can be no virtue.
Without Liberty there can be no worship, no blasphemy — no love, no hatred, no justice, no progress.
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds — but with that word realized — with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
George Nicholas (1754–1799) American lawyer
Letter to a friend in Virginia (1798); cited in The Great Quotations, compiled by George Seldes (1960)