On Liberty Quotes

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Democracy is the best revenge.

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

I love my country, not my government.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

There's never been a good government.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

War is just one more big government program.

Only powerful people have liberty.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax