Robert H. Jackson Quotes

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

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

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

This city belongs to you. Nobody can dictate your beliefs.

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

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

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.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

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.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.