Quotes about Liberty

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowledge of this true God is utterly bound up with our willingness to receive from the hand of God the liberty to give and forgive.

decided years ago, as a teenager, that nobody has the liberty to control my rights because my rights are God-given and inherent. Some people are amazed at my outlook. A black preacher came up to me one time and said, "Man, you're a different kind of black man." I said, "No, I am in control of whose opinions are important." There is a significant difference between demanding one's rights from someone and displaying the rights one already possesses.

The ultimate goal of all personal and national authority is freedom

There is truly no greater burden than freedom, no heavier load than liberty.

Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

To be free is to not merely cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Let freedom reign.

The Spirit of Liberty" is not to be found in courts, laws and constitutions alone. "Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to save it. While it lives there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."" The

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.