Liberty Quotes

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.