Quotes About Liberty

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.

Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

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

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

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!

Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have come, as a people, to choose liberty.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Un bon livre se retrouve toujours entre les mains d'un lecteur libre. Sinon il n'y reste pas longtemps, le mauvais lecteur cherche à se débarrasser de tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu'il a déjà lu. Lire n'est pas nécessaire pour le corps (cela peut même se révéler nocif), seul l'oxygène l'est. Mais un bon livre oxygène l'esprit.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

It is a shedding of all else and an acknowledgement of the wilderness we are part of. And as the exhilaration slowly subsides, it often slips into a more indistinct yet cerebral, even hallowed realm." —DAVID ATCHESON The Liberty Project, Enjoying the spirit and protecting the nature of the Alaskan wilderness

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

Freedom is not something that can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.

The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.

Citizens should distrust politicians who distrust freedom.

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.