On Liberty Quotes

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.