Quotes about Liberty
That country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.
— Eric Metaxas
They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.
— Eric Metaxas
In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.
— Benjamin Harrison
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
— Thomas Jefferson
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.
— Eric Metaxas
We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.
— Glenn Beck
Freedom is relative.
— Billy Graham
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
— Malala Yousafzai
The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it
— Laurence Sterne
Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty" to remain independent of the enslavement of the material world. "Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem—how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel