Liberty Quotes

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "Freedom is control in your own life" "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand." "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized." "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation" "I've always believed America is a place that prepares a person to stand up, speak out and be heard" "The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases" "An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people" "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery" "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty" "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of free" "Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery." "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. " "Let America be America again " "Freedom is a noble thing "