Quotes About Liberty

Sure, I hear about the new freedom that people are enjoying in Eastern Europe. But how do you define freedom? Millions of people in Eastern Europe are now free from employment, free from safe streets, free from health care, free from social security

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Free will...it's all the rage these days

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

I love free speech.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

We need to be free if we are to love.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.