Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Learned Hand
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah
Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New... →
Paul Harris
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an... →
Stanley Hauerwas
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von Hayek
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby... →
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright... →
Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.