Quotes About Liberty

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.