Liberty Quotes · Page 59

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

— Davy Crockett

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

— Trent Lott

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

— John Hancock

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

— Habib Bourguiba

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

— Robert Browning

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

— Camille Paglia

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and…

— Ron Paul

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation…

— John F. Kennedy

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of…

— Tom G. Palmer

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended…

— Joseph Sobran

“Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade…

— John Truman Stoddert

“So we passed, hand-cuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington through the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government,…

— Solomon Northup

“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories…

— J. Christopher Herold

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of…

— Ronald Reagan

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the…

— James Madison

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on…

— Chiang Kai-shek

I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the…

— H. L. Mencken

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge…

— Calvin Coolidge

We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important…

— Thomas Jefferson

What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our…

— Abraham Lincoln

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

— Jim Mattis

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

— Jeffrey Rosen

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

— Tim Robbins

“When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never…

— Dorothy Thompson

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

— H. L. Mencken

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for…

— David O. McKay

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we…

— Walter E. Williams

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

— Jeff Vandermeer

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities…

— Lord Acton

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of…

— Ronald Reagan

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in…

— Leo Tolstoy

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

— Francois Guizot

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

— Andre Breton