Quotes about Liberty
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
— Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
— Woodrow Wilson
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
— David O. McKay
No man is free until he s a master of himself!!
— Epictetus
Human rights are being violated on every continent. More people are oppressed than free.
— Elie Wiesel
She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
— Elisabeth Elliot
America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?
— Eric Metaxas
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
— Rowan Williams
Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.
— Richard Paul Evans
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
— GK Chesterton
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
— George Washington
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
— James Kennedy