“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”— Lord Acton
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”— Lord Acton
“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.”— Lord Acton
“Now I acknowledge that liberty is a great thing, and worth seeking for, if we can get it honestly; and by our good conduct prevail on our masters to set us free.”— Jupiter Hammon
“The great truth, that each man and woman are the only true owners of their own faculties and their own bodies.”— Auberon Herbert
“We ask for our separated brethren what we ask for ourselves: liberty to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.”— Francis Spellman
“The post-9/11 world has had a devastating effect on America's belief in liberty and the rights of the individual.”— John McAfee
“As an organ of enlightened opinion, the press, when duly restrained, must be cherished as the guardian of civil and religious liberty.”— DeWitt Clinton
“The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.”— Samuel Alito
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”— Roger Nash Baldwin
“Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.”— John C. Calhoun
“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”— Friedrich August von Hayek