Quotes About Liberty

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

This country is built on free speech.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

I'm spoiled. All of my adult jobs have left me with complete freedom to come up with what I wanted.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms