Quotes About Liberty

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

I believe in individual freedoms and I believe that the state must be present when the markets demand it.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.

The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Bloomberg's money and media access are a serious danger to American liberty and we must take him head on.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.