Quotes About Liberty

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.