On Liberty Quotes

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah and I heard that and thought, I'm out!

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

We going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan, we're going to eliminate job-killing regulations which are a disaster, we are going to defend religious liberty.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.