Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
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.
All government, of course, is against liberty.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
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.
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn’t be a student loan problem in America.
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
As I looked up at the Statue of Liberty, I thought at that time, ‘What a wonderful country.’
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
There really is only one difference between the two. Mr. Trump promises to support religious liberty and the dignity of the unborn. Mrs. Clinton promises she will not.
‘Liberty Brass’ is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can’t be figuring things out on the day.
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
Our religious liberty was threatened by the Obama administration as part of the Obamacare law. I was in the courtroom when that law was, I think unjustly, held constitutional.
I don’t feel I’m at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That’s not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
If you think of ‘Liberty Valance’ or ‘The Searchers,’ there are moments in there that you’ll never, ever forget… And it does not matter what century you are from.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
The worst job I ever had was working as a Lady Liberty sign-twirler for a tax services place, where I’d just dance and have fun. The way I talk about it makes it sounds like a fun job – but then I got a staph infection from the costume. So that was probably the worst part about it.
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
Liberty University is the world’s largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
People don’t seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it’s there to protect individual liberty – it’s there to protect us from the concentration of power.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
