Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
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.
~By Tony Snow ~
But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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 ~
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
~By Richard Price ~
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.
~By John Bates Clark ~
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~By Edward Everett ~
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 ~
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
~By John Adams ~
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
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 ~
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
~By Learned Hand ~
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
~By John Milton ~
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Frank Norris ~
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
~By John Adams ~
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~By Lyn Nofziger ~
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 ~
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 ~
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
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.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
~By Antonio de Mendoza ~
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
~By Andre Breton ~
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
~By Plautus ~
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
~By Richard Baxter ~
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.
~By John Frame ~
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
~By James Larkin ~
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
~By David E. Price ~
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 ~
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
~By William Blake ~
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
~By John C. Calhoun ~
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
~By Christopher Gadsden ~
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 ~
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
~By Davy Crockett ~
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
~By Thomas Paine ~
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
~By Judge Dalzell ~
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.
~By Arthur Keith ~
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
~By Matt Drudge ~
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
~By George Washington ~
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
~By Ron Paul ~
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
~By Aly Khan ~
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
~By John Acton ~
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 ~
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
~By Robert Trout ~
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
~By Islom Karimov ~
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
~By Lysander Spooner ~
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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.
~By Virgil Goode ~
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
~By Walt Whitman ~
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
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 ~
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
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 ~
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
~By Dennis Prager ~
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
~By Robert Walpole ~
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.
~By James F. Cooper ~
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
~By Edmund Burke ~
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
~By James Madison ~
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.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
~By James H. Douglas ~
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
~By James Otis ~
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
~By George Washington ~
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
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.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
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 ~
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.
~By Horst Koehler ~
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
~By John Randolph ~
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
~By Earl Warren ~
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
~By Jose Marti ~
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~By Sallust ~
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
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