Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Freedom is our birthright.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

Liberty is worth paying for.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

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

My angel,--his name is Freedom,-- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

Only freedom can make security secure.

For what avail the plough or sail, / Or Land or life, if freedom fail?

Freedom and liberty should not be sold for all the gold and silver in the world.

Liberty, the soul of everything. Without you, life is dead.

All of our freedoms – All of the time.

The individual is greater than the state.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

Liberty and Independence forever.

It is our purpose to respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live and to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.