Quotes About Liberty

We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.

You don't take away my freedom without asking first.

There are no rules. There are no guidelines.

We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

The nation, the Supreme Court has said, has "no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln." The

Above all, how did liberty relate to other great aims? Some Americans felt that the pursuit of liberty ultimately would safeguard other values, such as order and equality; others saw order and authority as prior goals in protecting liberty.

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect

We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.