Quotes about Liberty

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.

Tocqueville put it as bluntly as Franklin or Adams had, writing: "Liberty cannot be established without morality.

That country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.