Liberty Quotes

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

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.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

Empire and liberty.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and 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.