Quotes About Liberty

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has to be more to life inside than that.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom once you left the prison gates.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Liberty is never fully paid off, and to be deserving of it, one must be willing to fight for it on the battlefield, in the halls of Congress, by involving yourselves in your communities. Such a struggle is not a burden, it is a privilege.

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.