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“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.”
Mitt Romney
“And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.”
Mitt Romney
“President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.”
Mitt Romney
“The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.”
Mitt Romney
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
Ronald Reagan
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”
Milton Friedman
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
Bertrand Russell
“Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.”
Bertrand Russell
“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
William Blake
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
Francis Bacon
“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
Jon Stewart
“Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.”
Tecumseh
“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”
Walt Whitman
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
John Adams
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
John Adams
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
John Adams
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”
John Adams
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Edmund Burke
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
Edmund Burke
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Edmund Burke
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
Edmund Burke
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
Edmund Burke
“The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.”
Edmund Burke
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
William Hazlitt
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
