Liberty Quotes
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The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
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Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
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Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
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Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
