There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
