Liberty Quotes

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

This young century will be liberty's century.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.