Quotes about Liberty
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.
— James Madison
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.
— Thomas Paine
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
— Barack Obama
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
— William Faulkner
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
— Dennis Prager
No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.
— John Owen
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
— Ronald Reagan
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
— William Law
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
— Andrew Jackson
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
— Abraham Lincoln