Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

If we can return to a government that the Founders in their wisdom envisioned for us we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again and our people to live in liberty.

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Every one of our greatest national treasures our liberty enterprise vitality wealth military power global authority flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

I have always been an outstanding football player I have always had uncanny abilities great arm strength an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted and if the time came for me to go the Lord would let them take me.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

A jealous lover of human liberty deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity I reverse the phrase of Voltaire and say that if God really existed it would be necessary to abolish him.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish and one which because of its very catholicity grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like but the right to do what we ought.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.