The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty but also by the abuse of power.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.

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.

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

Standing as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace liberty and independence.

In a tribal organization even in time of peace service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war service for the tribe or state becomes supreme and personal liberty is suspended.

That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Where there are too many policemen there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers there is no justice.

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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 to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life.

By nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.