Liberty Quotes

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.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

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

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.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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.