Florence Ellinwood Allen Quotes

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

We are blessed with more liberty than just about any other civilized people in history

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Liberty is worth paying for.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

I would hope to glorify freedom and liberty over there [America] in the hope that it may be regained over here [France.]

[The American flag] ... means the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world has ever known, or has since known—the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

We are a people on a quest. We go and look for the kind of nation we want. The quest is the enduring American experiment. The meaning is in the seeking.

The wounds of my country will heal after the troubles of anarchy and bloody revolution. The peaceful Canadian will see happiness and liberty on the St. Lawrence. Everything converges towards that end, even the executions; the blood and tears spilled on the altar of liberty today of watering the roots of the tree on which will fly the flag marked with the two stars of the Canadas.