Quotes About Liberty

Unlike other peoples, the Americans were armed, and the resistance of the state governments would bar a federal tyranny. By contrast, the European monarchies were "afraid to trust the people with arms." In short, the keeping and bearing of arms by the citizens would preserve the republic and protect liberty. The authors of The Federalist Papers contended that an armed populace and state resistance, not paper guarantees, would prevent federal usurpation based on military force.

A citizenry "trained up unto their arms, which they use not for the defense of slavery but of liberty," composes "the vastest body of a well-disciplined militia that is possible in nature.

When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them." William

Of course it is escapist," he cried. "That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can." He went on to explain, "The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

In January 1995 three prisoners, two category 'A' prisoners and a lifer escaped from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. After four days of freedom they were recaptured. My length of freedom far surpassed theirs.

Slavery tarnishes the honor of labor and makes industry a disgrace. Slavery poisons the air, and gives barrenness to the soil. Liberty clears the one, and enriches the other.

This isn't freedom. This is mobility. Don't get those two things confused.

Property being theft and all, I felt free to help myself.

Freedom is more than just a word and a patriotic concept. It is the purest intent of God."

I've come to realize that one of the perks of a free society is the inalienable right to debase ourselves in a wide variety of ways...

two things I've never been able to refuse—free food and free books. Of

in life every thing comes with a price even freedom

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

I eat and breathe small government and freedom.

I am a strong believer in small government that doesn't interfere in people's lives.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.