On Liberty Quotes

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.