On Liberty Quotes
At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?
We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.
We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things
The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.
