Liberty Quotes

"If you're not ready to die for it put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary" "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 its government" "He who is brave is free " "Now go we in content, to liberty, and not to banishment." "Justice is the end of government It is the end of civil society It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties" "Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master." "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric" "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness You have to catch it yourself" "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race" "In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains" "When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interest which is thereby designated." "Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once." "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos" "In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order" "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free" "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears" "Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent." "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."