On Liberty Quotes

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

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

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.