Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

Minority rights have to be protected. That is America’s great contribution to the world.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

All of our freedoms – All of the time.

There was a price paid for the freedom that we have. And that price was paid in blood…. Somebody paid a price for us to have access to that ballot box.

An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Here everyone is his own master. Civil liberty places all inhabitants on an equal footing. The humble cannot be oppressed by the mighty, nor the poor by the rich.

Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

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.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

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

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.