Liberty Quotes

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

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.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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.

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.