Liberty Quotes

This young century will be liberty's century.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.