Liberty Quotes

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.