Liberty Quotes

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.