Quotes About Liberty

The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of tycoons would see their wealth and influence turbocharged, while the mass of the population would see their prosperity, their security and, ultimately, their liberty dwindle away.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

In America, we must always place constitutional values over authoritarian control.