If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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.
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
