Liberty Quotes · Page 86

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by…

— Richard Henry Lee

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom…

— George W. Bush

It's the job of the president to ensure the protection of liberty in the United States of America.

— Ted Wheeler

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

— Lewis Goldberg

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain…

— Sting

“If liberty sang a song, little, as the larynx of a bird, nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.”

— Ahmad Shamlou

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to…

— C.M. Stunich

The President's extraordinary commitment to religious liberty has been obvious since the very beginning of his presidency - just two weeks after…

— Paula White

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to…

— Thomas Paine

The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -…

— George Washington

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious…

— Francis Schaeffer

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of…

— Charles Evans Hughes

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of…

— Jon Meacham

Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is…

— Hal Turner

The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court…

— Wolfe Tone

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.…

— George H. W. Bush

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One might rejoin that the State, representing as it does the public welfare or the common interest of all, curtails a part…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to…

— Winston Churchill

One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice."…

— Fulton J. Sheen

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

— Paul Craig Roberts

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very…

— Felix Frankfurter

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

— Josh Billings

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

— James Freeman Clarke

Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty must undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

— Thomas Paine

Count on your heart not your brain, Your heart will surely lead you to the liberty hall.

— Ritu Ghatourey

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty.

— Franklin Foer

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

— Dee Hock

The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.

— Dov Davidoff

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition…

— Milton Friedman

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for…

— William Lloyd Garrison

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

— Wendy Kaminer

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

— Robert Hayden