2,103 Quotes About Liberty

"If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you."

"It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty."

"Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims."

"Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details."

"Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries."

"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law."

"I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before."

"There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have."

"The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it."