Quotes about Liberty

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance.

Liberty is the parent of science and of virtue, and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.

If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will would grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is, and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy. And

You pray and suffer and hang on and give things up and hope and sweat, and the varying contours of the struggle work out the shape of your liberty. When it ends, and when you have a good habit to work with, do not forget the moments of the battle when you were wounded and disarmed and helpless. Do not forget that, for all your efforts, you only won because of God, Who did the fighting in you.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.