I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
~By Otto Hermann Kahn ~
As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
~By David Lloyd George ~
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
~By Allen Johnson ~
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
~By Ellen Key ~
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
~By Francis Wright ~
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
~By Philipp Melanchthon ~
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 ~
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
~By Earl Warren ~
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
~By David Antin ~
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
~By James Madison ~
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 ~
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
~By John Ensign ~
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
~By Otto Hermann Kahn ~
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
~By Tecumseh ~
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
~By George Berkeley ~
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
~By August Bebel ~
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
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 ~
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
~By Paul Parker ~
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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 ~
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~By Ron Paul ~
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
~By Benjamin Rush ~
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
~By Ira Glasser ~
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
~By Will Durant ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
~By George William Curtis ~
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
~By Benjamin F. Wade ~
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 ~
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~By Lyn Nofziger ~
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
~By Davy Crockett ~
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
~By Eliot Engel ~
When liberty returns, I will return.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
~By John Acton ~
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
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 ~
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
~By Arthur Hugh Clough ~
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.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
~By James Madison ~
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
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.
~By John McCain ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
~By James Madison ~
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
~By Richard Perle ~
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
~By Francis Wright ~
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
~By Fisher Ames ~
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 ~
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
~By Richard Baxter ~
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
~By John Cotton ~
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
~By William Allen White ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
~By Tony Snow ~
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
~By Lord Acton ~
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
~By Ron Paul ~
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 ~
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 ~
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
~By George Washington ~
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
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 ~
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