Defend Liberty Quotes

#1. History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

Ronald Reagan

#2. It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

Ted Cruz

#3. We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

Ted Cruz

#4. Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

Claude Gueant

#5. I will fight to defend liberty.

Ted Cruz

#6. I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

#7. The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty
or anything else.

G. Edward Griffin

#8. I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Joaquim Nabuco

#10. Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat

#11. Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Edward Abbey

#12. I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.

Ted Cruz

#13. I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.

Barack Obama

#14. Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

J.G. Holland

#16. Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

William J. Clinton

#17. [L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

Tom G. Palmer

#18. The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

John Adams

#19. In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas' self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George Bush in the Middle East and the Central Asia.

Harry Thompson

#20. Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Tecumseh

#21. The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

Richard Dawkins

#22. They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

#23. Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.

Christine O'Donnell

#24. I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

Henry A. Wise

#25. But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Sonny Perdue

#26. The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

Charles I Of England

#27. I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

Alan Wilson

#28. I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.

Andrew Solomon

#29. When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Umberto Eco

#30. This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.

Stephen Colbert

#31. Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw.

Irving Rosenthal

#32. The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

#33. God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webster

#34. My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#35. President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Mitt Romney

#36. Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

Ludwig Von Mises

#37. It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

Bernard Bailyn

#38. With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

Michael Reagan

#39. A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.

Diosdado Macapagal

#40. I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

Ted Cruz

#41. Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

David Hockney

#42. Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Samuel Adams