Liberty Quotes

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.