Liberty Quotes

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.