Liberty Quotes

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.