I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty in areas of non-harmful conduct.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
