Best Freedom And Liberty Quotes

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

That government is best which governs least.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

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

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that’s constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.

There was no one left to speak for me.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we’re being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all.

Let’s all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

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.

A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It’s freedom – freedom and liberty – and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States