Quotes about Liberty

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Freedom is not free