Quotes about Liberty
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
- Ronald Reagan
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
- John Wesley
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
- Alexander Hamilton
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
- Ronald Reagan
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
- Ronald Reagan
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
- Dennis Prager
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
- William Henry Harrison
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln