On Liberty Quotes

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Little liberties are great offenses.

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Liberty is dangerous.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.