(898 quotes found)
“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles”
Patrick Henry
“As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law arethe rule.”
Albert Einstein
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Barry Goldwater
“The basis of a democratic state is liberty.”
Aristotle
“Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
“A government big enough to supply you with everything you need is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.... The course of history shows that as the government grows, liberty decreases.”
Thomas Jefferson
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
Archibald MacLeish
