Freedom And Liberty Quotes

Freedom And Liberty Quotes by Barry Goldwater, James Madison, Benjamin E. Mays, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Ronald Reagan and many others.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And mod

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
James Madison
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
Benjamin E. Mays
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
Thomas Jefferson
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
Ronald Reagan
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
Louis D. Brandeis
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
D. H. Lawrence
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
James Madison
There was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemoller
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Thomas Jefferson