Liberty Quotes

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.