Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
~By James Talent ~
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
~By James Otis ~
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
~By August Bebel ~
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all".
~By Pat Schroeder ~
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 ~
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~By Frank Norris ~
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
~By James H. Douglas ~
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
~By Anne Baxter ~
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
~By Joichi Ito ~
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
~By William Godwin ~
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Where liberty dies, evil grows.
~By Hamid Karzai ~
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 ~
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 ~
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
~By Joseph Howe ~
When liberty returns, I will return.
~By Victor Hugo ~
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 ~
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
~By Albert Pike ~
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
~By Philip Wylie ~
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~By Edward Everett ~
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 ~
The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.
~By Gary Johnson ~
Liberty is worth paying for.
~By Jules Verne ~
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
~By Leopold Zunz ~
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 ~
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~By John Adams ~
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
~By Richard Perle ~
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~By Daniel Webster ~
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~By Yves Tanguy ~
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
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 ~
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
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 ~
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 ~
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
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 ~
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
~By Alice Paul ~
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 ~
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
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 ~
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
~By Patrick Henry ~
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 ~
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
~By William Dean Howells ~
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 ~
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 ~
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
~By Junius ~
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
~By Philipp Melanchthon ~
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 right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
~By George Washington ~
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
~By Terence ~
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
~By David Hume ~
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 ~
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
~By Patrick Henry ~
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
~By Will Durant ~
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 ~
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 ~
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous 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 ~
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Personal liberty is not personal license.
~By Billy Sunday ~
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
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 ~
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim DeMint ~
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
~By John Linder ~
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
~By Charles Evans Hughes ~
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
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