Quotes About Liberty

We are united by our common fears and divided by our individual freedom!"

Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Those who would sacrifice essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The precondition to freedom is security.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.

One suspects that, at some level, progressives grasp the power of this dynamic, which is why they advocate for national legislation for every problem to defeat the individual liberty that federalism helps secure.

Pour le pouvoir, l'ennemi numéro UN, c'est la créativité individuelle s'irradiant librement.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

That so much time was wasted in this pain. Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down To not return again! A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! And with one final shake of laughter Breaks his bonds. The nails fall skittering to marble floors. And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty.

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

They feared slaves who "entertained ideas, that the present contest was for obliging us to give them their liberty."12 They feared the British, who "have been tampering with our Negroes; and have held nightly meetings with them; and all for the glorious purpose of enticing them to cut their masters' throats while they are asleep.

Liberty to slaves"—it must have sounded so sweet. On plantations throughout the Chesapeake region African Americans held in bondage spread the news.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

This young century will be liberty's century.

I am not in chains. My mind is my own.