People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.