The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
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. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.