Quotes About Liberty

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.