Liberty Quotes

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

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.