Quotes About Liberty

WE DEMOCRATS are deeply flawed people, but we do stick to our guns, and believe in decency and public spiritedness and have refused to hitch our wagon to yahooism and intolerance and have supported government as a necessary force for good to "establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty . . .

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. - Mogget

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed

This history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I give you back your liberty, Christine, on condition that this ring is always on your finger. As long as you keep it, you will be protected against all danger and Erik will remain your friend. But woe to you if you ever part with it, for Erik will have his revenge!

it seems to me that no poet can be greater than the one who announces to a man that freedom is his right.

El amor es una cosa tan libre como el espíritu.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

Universal liberty can't produce any work or any positive action, only negative action. Universal liberty is only the rush to erase.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Rights aren't really rights if someone can take them away.

only in another sort of pinfold than that from which she had been released. Lydgate's advice

Discrimination is a denial of freedom.

Connect the private-depends-on-the-public concept to something that conservatives will understand: freedom.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.