#liberty

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. ↗

— Elbridge Gerry

#army #attempt #bane #destroy #establishment

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cannot #centuries #defenders #freedoms #granted

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? ↗

— Matt Drudge

#caught #finally #freedom #individual #individual liberty

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad. ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#free-market #freedom #liberty #faith

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#almighty god #chains #course #dear #death

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#fact #free #granted #key #liberty

Life without Liberty is far worse than death. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#far #liberty #life #than #without

Where liberty dies, evil grows. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#evil #grows #liberty #where

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#flag #hoped #liberty #men #moneyed

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? ↗