Quotes About Liberty

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals that it is supposed to be defending.

As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, 'No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.' No person, no exceptions.

As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.