Liberty Quotes

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

There can be no liberty without the law.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.