Quotes About Liberty

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.