Life Liberty Quotes
58 Life Liberty quotes by 45 unique authors
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed…
— Frederic Bastiat
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When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice…
— Benazir Bhutto
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The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to life, liberty and…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt…
— Ronald Reagan
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Epictetus
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— John D. Rockefeller
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I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.
— Mindy Kaling
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,…
— Samuel Adams
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You exist in time: future, present, and past. This is manifest in life, liberty, and the product of your life and liberty. The exercise of…
— Ken Schoolland
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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We…
— Barack Obama
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That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice.…
— Charlie LeDuff
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We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life,…
— Ronald Reagan
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All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit…
— David McCullough
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In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Life Liberty Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 58 Life Liberty Quotes, led by these top contributors: