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"If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered."
Adam Smith
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"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 Tocqueville
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
Aristotle
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin
"'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 Franklin
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
Daniel Webster
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."
Daniel Webster
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Daniel Webster
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Daniel Webster
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
Dick Cheney
"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men."
E.B. White
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
Edmund Burke
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
Edmund Burke
"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
George Washington
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
George Washington
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
George Bernard Shaw
"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands."
George W. Bush
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