Famous quotes containing the words american and/or liberty:
“Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Again we have here two distinctions that are no distinctions, but made to seem so by terms invented by I know not whom to cover ignorance, and blind the understanding of the reader: for it cannot be conceived that there is any liberty greater, than for a man to do what he will.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)