Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life,...

I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in...

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

The National Rifle Association - all that we believe in and fight for - has become a metaphor for the core American liberty we all want preserved.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a...

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most...

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.