That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence 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.
~By Thomas Hood ~
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
~By Earl Warren ~
What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
~By Elbridge Gerry ~
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
~By Annie Besant ~
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
~By George Santayana ~
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
~By James Monroe ~
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
~By Jeff Vandermeer ~
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.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
~By Elmer Davis ~
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
~By Henry A. Wise ~
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
~By Kay Granger ~
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
~By Learned Hand ~
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
~By Henry Knox ~
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~By Marquis de Lafayette ~
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
~By Voltairine de Cleyre ~
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
~By Joe Barton ~
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
~By John Adams ~
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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.
~By Matt Blunt ~
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~By Samuel Adams ~
I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.
~By Michael Hayden ~
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.
~By Richard Henry Lee ~
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
~By Robert Jackson ~
The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
~By Ron Paul ~
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
~By Thomas F. Meagher ~
The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
~By Duff Green ~
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.
~By William Kunstler ~
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.
~By Samuel Adams ~
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
~By Benjamin Rush ~
If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~By Frank Herbert ~
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.
~By Michael Badnarik ~
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
~By Lysander Spooner ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
~By William J. Clinton ~
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
~By John Boehner ~
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
~By John Winthrop ~
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
~By John Tillotson ~
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
~By Tommy Franks ~
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~By Sallust ~
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
~By Andre Breton ~
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
~By John Acton ~
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
~By John Adams ~
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
~By Ben Nelson ~
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
~By Phaedrus ~
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
~By Tony Snow ~
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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.
~By Rod Parsley ~
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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.
~By James Madison ~
Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
~By Tom Ridge ~
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Jim Ryun ~
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
~By Don Young ~
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
~By Mike Pence ~
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
~By Jose Marti ~
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
~By William Godwin ~
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
~By Arthur Hugh Clough ~
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
~By Matt Drudge ~
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~By Will Rogers ~
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.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
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