Liberty Quotes

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Give me liberty or give me death.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.