Liberty Quotes

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.