Quotes About Liberty

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

We are for freedom here in Florida.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

I don't want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.

I never forbid myself anything.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

The name of our country, France, still rings out like a call to freedom.

Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - to the brink.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.