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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.