On Liberty Quotes

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

The less government we have the better.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution.

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it kills the nation.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.