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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.
I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.