Quotes about Liberty

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.

In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.

But he who desireth to walk at liberty with Me, must of necessity mortify all his evil and inordinate affections, and must cling to no creature with selfish love.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.