Liberty Quotes

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Give me liberty or give me death.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.