Famous quotes containing the words american and/or liberty:
“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)