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Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate - such as facilitating interstate commerce - to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.

Quotes by Chris Gibson

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is...

Quotes by Chiang Kai-shek

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

Quotes by Charlie Pierce

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

Quotes by Charles Kennedy

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one...

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not...

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

There can be no liberty without the law.

Quotes by Cecil B. DeMille

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Quotes by Catharine Beecher

I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.

Quotes by Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Quotes by Caleb Cushing

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Quotes by Burl Ives

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Quotes by Bryant H. McGill

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

Quotes by Bruno Dumont

There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.

Quotes by Brett Kavanaugh

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about being nervous when liberty is at stake?
Yes, one quote reads, "I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake."
Is there a quote warning that taking liberty from those we hate risks losing it for those we love?
Yes -- one quote makes this civic-principle point: "For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love." A closely related version of the same idea also appears among the sample quotes: "Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."
Is there a classic quote linking vigilance to the price of liberty?
Yes, one quote reads, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
Are the sample quotes about liberty tied to a specific event?
No -- they're general civic and philosophical statements about liberty as a value. None of them names a specific law, court case, or dispute; they speak about liberty and freedom in broad terms.
Where can I find more quotes about freedom and rights?
See the Freedom or Rights collections.

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