Arthur Gorgey Quotes

Give me liberty or give me death.

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.

Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.

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.

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Now in the whole of Europe there are only two parties: France for the freedom of peoples against all the rulers, and all the monarchs against France for despotism and old traditions.

To quell all nations - to dethrone all Kings, and plant the Tree of Liberty in our Irish land.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

Liberty has its roots in blood.

The Law! It is the arch-crime of the centuries. The path of Man is soaked with the blood it has shed. Can this great criminal determine Right? Is a revolutionist to respect such a travesty? It would mean the perpetuation of human slavery.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

I don't believe we should have any rulers. It is right to kill them.

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

Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty.

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

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

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.