The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
