Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.