Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. – Thomas Jefferson
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. – Vladimir Lenin
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. – William Blackstone
It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty – fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds. – Ted Cruz
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. – Walter Annenberg
Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. – Tony Snow
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. – Susan B. Anthony
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. – Ted Cruz
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual. – Stanley Hauerwas
I think it’s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. – Ted Cruz
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. – Sigmund Freud
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. – Tom Rachman
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property. – Susan B. Anthony
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty. – Tony Blair
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good. – Tom G. Palmer
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine
We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution. – Ted Cruz
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. – Viktor E. Frankl