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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
George W. Bushborn 1946George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural Address (2005)
- America
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
George W. Bushborn 1946George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural Address (2005)
- America
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Speech in Philadelphia (1776)
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Faith
- Morality
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- America
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
- America
- Christianity
‘Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p. 39
- Freedom
From a persuasion that equal liberty was originally the Portion, It is still the Birthright of all men.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Petition from the Pennsylvania Society (1790)
- Slavery
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to M. de Menonville (October 1789)
- Justice
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 Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Virtue
- Wisdom
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 Goldwater1909–1998Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate
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 Adams1735–1826Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)
- Government
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill1806–1873On Liberty (1859), Ch. 1: IntroductoryIn context
- Government