Quotes about Liberty

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times."

And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.