Quotes About Liberty

You pray and suffer and hang on and give things up and hope and sweat, and the varying contours of the struggle work out the shape of your liberty. When it ends, and when you have a good habit to work with, do not forget the moments of the battle when you were wounded and disarmed and helpless. Do not forget that, for all your efforts, you only won because of God, Who did the fighting in you.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.

It is easy to give up freedom and hard to get it back.

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

If we want to defend against Christian nationalists' distorted notion of "religious liberty," we don't need to find a new principle. We just need to reclaim the genuine religious freedom that our founders established and that most of our citizens cherish.

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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

I would rather lay down my life for others' freedom than die quietly in slavery.

Allen Walker, we're giving you a chance to abandon the Order of your own free will. (heart) This is your retirement party. (heart)

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

Hitchens: Since we only have one life to live, I can help people make it free as best I can, and assist them in their real struggle for liberty, which in its most essential form, is the struggle against theocracy, which is the original form of dictatorship and the violation of human rights.

It was said six hundred years ago by a great man. He said, 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses... a slave obeys.

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.

We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty.

Persecution on racial or religious ground has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty and which calls itself a democracy.

Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rational istic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.