And what is liberty whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience of education of association of the press of travel or labor or trade?
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
In Nicaragua liberty equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
I had reasoned this out in my mind there was one of two things I had a right to liberty or death if I could not have one I would have the other.
I know not what others may choose but as for me give me liberty or give me death.
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free makes no sense.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
I know that throughout their history the people of the United States defended their freedom their liberty their justice and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
We the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes we can. In times of great change and tumult presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life the dignity of man the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may by change of circumstances become his own.