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As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

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

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

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

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.