Quotes About Liberty

I have zero pressure, because I have nothing to lose.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.

There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which you don't find on most TV shows. You just don't.

I have some help on tweeting.

The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.