Liberty Quotes

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.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

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.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.