Liberty Quotes - Page 34

If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Individual liberty is individual power.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.