On Liberty Quotes

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Liberty is not enough.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

Liberty trains for liberty.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.