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.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

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.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

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

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Empire and liberty.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

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

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

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

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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.

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

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.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I have the space and liberty to create.

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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?