On Liberty Quotes

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.