The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.'
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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.
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.
We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with liberty, they ultimately depend on it.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
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.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
