Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

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