I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

This young century will be liberty’s century.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Empire and liberty.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.