Liberty Quotes

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

You set yourself free by letting go of anyone who wants to leave.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.