On Liberty Quotes

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

Liberty comes only after security.

If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.