Quotes About Liberty

If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.

We have the freedoms we fight for, and we lose those we don't defend.

Free people write books," it said. "Free people publish books. Free people sell books. Free people buy books. Free people read books. In the spirit of America's commitment to free expression we inform the public that this book will be available to readers at bookshops and libraries throughout the country.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

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.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.

In every country where independence takes the place of liberty, the first need felt by any strong mind and powerful constitution is to possess a weapon which can serve both for attack and defence; and which, by making its bearer formidable, will mean that he often inspires dread.

although a companion is agreeable, perfect freedom is sometimes still more agreeable. I

He then gave himself up to his happiness. He would no longer be alone. He was, perhaps, about to regain his liberty; at the worst, he would have a companion, and captivity that is shared is but half captivity. Plaints made in common are almost prayers, and prayers where two or three are gathered together invoke the mercy of heaven.