Quotes about Liberty

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Freedom is relative.

It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it

Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty" to remain independent of the enslavement of the material world. "Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem—how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.