On Liberty Quotes

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

There can be no liberty without the law

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.