Quotes about Liberty
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
— Ronald Reagan
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
— Dennis Prager
Those are governed best who are governed least.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
— William Henry Harrison
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
— George W. Bush
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.
— George W. Bush
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
— George W. Bush