Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.