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 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.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

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

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

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

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.

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.

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

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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.

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

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

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

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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

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

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.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

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.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

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

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

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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

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

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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.

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

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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

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

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

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