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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

Liberty is its own reward.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

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