“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Once unquestining obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Co…”— Ron Paul, en.wikiquote.org
“The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.”— Ron Paul, books.google.com
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”— Ron Paul, chron.com
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“More importantly, though, is that calling the United States a democracy is incomplete; we are a (small 'l') liberal democracy: that is not only do we elect our representatives, but we also are governed by the rule of law and the guarantee of individual rights and personal liberty. That our liberalis…”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com