Quotes About Liberty

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

The right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right protected by the Constitution.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

Laws that impinge your constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living must not be preposterous.

See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.

The U.S. is supposed to be a beacon of hope to the world - the shining city on a hill where freedom is available to all and individual liberties are protected.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

The Second Amendment is the one that really protects all of our liberties that we are given by our Lord, and our God-given rights, and are protected under the Constitution.

This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want.

Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal.

France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.