Liberty Rights Quotes

History does not furnish a single instance of a government once established, voluntarily yielding up its powers to secure the rights and liberties of the people.

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

The Constitution nowhere mentions a specific right of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life, but the ‘liberty’ protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment covers more than those freedoms explicitly named in the Bill of Rights

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

Individuals do not derive from government their right to contract, but bring that right with them into society.... every man retains the right to acquire property, to dispose of that property according to his own judgment, and to pledge himself for a future act.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other.

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Liberty of public association; or the security with which malcontents may communicate their sentiments, concert their plans, and practice every mode of opposition short of actual revolt, before the executive power can be legally justified in disturbing them

The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.