On Liberty Quotes

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

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

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.