Liberty Quotes
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
