I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
~ John Adams
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.
~ Thomas Frank
I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
~ Tecumseh
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
~ Alexis De Tocqueville
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.
~ Jon Meacham
There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.
~ Evan Mcmullin
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
~ George Washington
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
~ Bob Hope
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
~ Will Self
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
~ Andrew Jackson
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~ Barry Goldwater
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
~ Sandra Day O'connor
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
~ John C. Calhoun
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
~ Henry Knox
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
~ Ron Paul
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
~ John Marshall
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
~ H. L. Mencken
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
~ Thomas Clarkson
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
~ Mitch Mcconnell
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
~ Edward Everett
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
~ Benjamin Franklin
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
~ Edmund Burke
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
~ Octavio Paz
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
~ Thomas Paine
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
~ Abraham Lincoln
People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.
~ Colin Kaepernick
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~ Emma Goldman
