Liberty Quotes

“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”

“There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.”

“An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”

“Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“As government grows, freedom recedes.”

“There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.”

“Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.”

“Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.”

“I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'”

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”

“No man can be just who is not free.”

“Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”

“There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.”

“The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”

“Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.”

“Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.”

“Our people shall be free”

“...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.”

“Liberty is its own reward.”

“You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.”

“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”