Quotes About Liberty

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.

Protecting basic rights such as freedom of expression enhances social stability.

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

I want to stand up for free speech.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

It may sound funny to others, but there is a sense of freedom when I am able to live on my own, and as per my own set standards.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

Every virtuous man is free.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

Only the man who says no is free

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?