Charles Montalembert Quotes

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand for themselves, then the great American experience will come to an end.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupied a new place among the people of the world… Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Tyrants of our day are the most dangerous preachers of liberty.

To Arms! ... they [the French] would enslave the free-born mind, and compel us meanly to cringe to usurpation and arbitrary power.

For what avail the plough or sail, / Or Land or life, if freedom fail?

We pledge to you the sacrifice of our lives and property in support of whatever measures the dignity and liberties of the free sovereign and independent State may seem to your wisdom to demand.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Freedom for all; but the power and welfare of the fatherland above all.

The bounty you must pay for freedom is to give the strength of your arms to put down tyranny. One short hour will deliver our country from the oppressor; and freedom in religion, peace and tranquility, equal laws and an improved country will be the prize.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

Unmanacle the slave… unsceptre the despot… erect an altar on the Inquisition’s grace, to raise a people to the altitude of freedom.