Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A nation has character only when it is free.

It is a worthy thing to fight for ones freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It must be admitted that liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Liberty is its own reward.

Liberty does not consist in mere general declarations of the rights of men. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

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