Quotes About Liberty

Tocqueville put it as bluntly as Franklin or Adams had, writing: "Liberty cannot be established without morality.

that country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

Every free-born American has a right to name his own necessities.

By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.

but we do not interfere. If we did, would you truly be free?

Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

I'd been warned in advance, so I'd given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don't.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country!

Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin

Ade wanted to leave, to become a spirit again, free in the captivity of freedom. I wanted the liberty of limitations, to have to find or create new roads from this one which is so hungry, this road of our refusal to be.

mieux vaut vivre libre dans un monde ravagé qu'être un esclave dans une utopie pacifiée.

Better to live free in a ravaged world than to be a slave in a peaceful utopia.

La liberté c'est un privilège qu'on ne savoure vraiment qu'après qu'on vous en a privé.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

Hank would be free to pursue his passions

The philosophy of the United States centers on three central principles, as articulated in the Declaration: on the reality of natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that preexist government; on the equality of men before the law; and on the notion that government is instituted only to protect those preexisting rights and equality of men before the law.