Liberty Quotes

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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?

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.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

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

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.