Liberty Quotes

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.