Quotes About Liberty

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequently keeps me on the optimistic side of life.