On Liberty Quotes

I believe we must choose the path to faith, freedom and individual liberty. It starts with us, here today, now, Working together, with God's favor, we can save the America that we love.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Light and liberty go together.

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.