Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
