Liberty Quotes

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that ...

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the U...

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upo...

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Whe...

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What m...

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

It’s not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the ...

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility...

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the eman...

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to f...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

Democracy is the best revenge.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liber...

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb co...

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither libe...

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Li...

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n...

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the...

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize i...

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new...

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many t...

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, ...

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a t...

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, wh...

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serv...

Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to...

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the ...

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberatio...

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradict...

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His vie...

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do...

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only...

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to th...

Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they w...

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books sa...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be ack...

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...

The United States, almost alone today, offers the liberties and the privileges and the tools of free...

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to ensla...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under obser...