liberty

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer _ because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.