Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Liberty Quotes
FreedomHistoryIdentityInnocenceLiberty I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
FreedomGovernanceLibertyPowerResistance Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
FortitudeLibertyPatriotismPerseveranceResilience We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed... we must bear the present evils and fortitude...
ComfortFreedomIndividualityLibertySociety If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
AutonomyLibertyResistance Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
DangerFreedomLibertyUnderstandingZeal The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
EqualityHopeLibertyPerseverance I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
Freedom of SpeechLibertyOppressionVulnerability If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
FreedomGovernmentLibertyMilitaryUnion Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Liberty The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
GovernanceJusticeLiberalityLibertyVirtue As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
AutonomyIndividual RightsLibertyPersonal FreedomSelf-Ownership Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
BalanceJusticeLibertyMoral PhilosophySecurity Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
CourageFreedom of SpeechIrrational FearsJusticeLiberty Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
FreedomGrowthLibertyPotentialRoots Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
DemocracyDictatorshipExtremismLibertyTyranny Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
ControlIndividualityLibertyObedienceResistance Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
LibertyVirtueWisdom But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
CourageHappinessIndependenceLibertyValues Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
EconomicsFreedomGovernanceLibertyPolitics Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
FearFreedomGlobal CooperationLibertySecurity I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.
Common GoodDemocracyIndividual DevelopmentLibertySocial Justice What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.
FreedomGovernanceLibertyPatriotismRights To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
JusticeLibertyPerseveranceResilience It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
