Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lur...
When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business of closing children’s minds and obliterating their capacity to imagine, and depriving them of a capacity to laugh, then you are a crimi...
He who accepts the gift loses his liberty.
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 ...
America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.
Tom Doniphon: [Doniphon has just told Stoddard what really happened the night Liberty Valance was shot] Hallie's your girl now. Go back in there and take that nomination. You taught her how to read and write; now give her something to read and write ...
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
Strong Individuals are those Individuals, whom are Individuals
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.
