Liberty Quotes

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all".

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Give me liberty or give me death.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.