Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York Quotes

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The principle of "the consent of the governed" is distinctly American and should be our world-wide slogan.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

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.

One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

No people must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live.

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

Broad local self-government; regional self-government for localities with special conditions of life or a particular make-up of the population. Unrestricted freedom of conscience, speech, press and assembly; the right to strike and to form trade unions. Freedom of movement and occupation. National self-determination for all nations forming part of the state.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

Only freedom can make security secure.

Two great parties are forming in all nations. For one there is a right of government to be exercised by one or several persons over the mass of the people .... This is opposed by the new system which admits no right of government except that arising from the free consent of those who submit to it.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty