Liberty Quotes

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Give me liberty or give me death.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.