Quotes about Liberty

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

Tis July's immortal Fourth; all fountains must run wine today!

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

He who is brave is free.

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

A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.