Liberty Quotes

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating th...

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to d...

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...

You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind...

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a r...

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and...

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I w...

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government c...

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; t...

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom...

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's...

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advan...

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthri...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but ...

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part ...

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...

All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argume...

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contes...

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful s...

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They...

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civil...

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that h...

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, lov...

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affiniti...

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesti...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; tha...

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the w...

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares t...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they ...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling t...

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws ...

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is...

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this eno...

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case...

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a co...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation ...

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never...

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to ...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too...

The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good...

He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th...

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those...

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting ...

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this ...

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.