Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

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

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

The advance of freedom is more than an interest we pursue. It is a calling we follow. Our country was created in the name of freedom. And if the self-evident truths of our founding are true for us, they are true for all.

We made freedom a birthright.

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

In a Constitution for a free people, there can be no doubt that the meaning of ‘liberty’ must be broad indeed.

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.