Protecting Liberty Quotes

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined

I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true title of our people to distinction above others; but . . . I would guard it by making the laws strong enough to protect it.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.