On Liberty Quotes

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

The breath of liberty is sweet.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

If we want to preserve our liberty, it is up to us to know what is going on, to know the Constitution, to know these limitation on the power of Congress and to insist that our leaders obey.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Our liberties face a far greater threat from Hillary Clinton ... than from Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I am not saying that for impact; I believe that to the core of my being.

Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

The forests have taught man liberty.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his will, in those things that pertain to faith and salvation.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.