Quotes about Liberty

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

He who is brave is free.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.