It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. Read Summary
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Read Summary
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Read Summary
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Read Summary
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Read Summary
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Read Summary
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Read Summary
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Read Summary
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Read Summary
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Read Summary
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. Read Summary
My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel. Read Summary
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Read Summary
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. Read Summary
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Read Summary
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Read Summary
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. Read Summary
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. Read Summary
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. Read Summary
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. Read Summary