Walter A. McDougall Quotes

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

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

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

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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.

Spiritual freedom is the root of political liberty… because till spiritual freedom was made manifest, political liberty did not exist.

Liberty and Independence forever.

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.

We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

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.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.