Liberty Quotes - Page 2

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.