Quotes about Liberty

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

Then a different paradigm was developed—government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And a constitutional democracy was born, unleashing tremendous human energy and ingenuity, and creating a standard of living, of freedom and liberty, of influence and hope unequaled

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America.