In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.
Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue
We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.
Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.