Quotes About Liberty

Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks--drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

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

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.

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The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

This troubled state of mind lasted four years, during which he suffered greatly. But since that time he has lived his life in perfect liberty and continual joy. He placed his sins between him and God, as it were, telling God that he did not deserve His kindnesses. But God still continued to bestow them upon him in abundance.