Harry S. Truman Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

  Harry S. Truman

  Suicide, Religious, Home

  Address at National Archives, Washington, D.C., 15 Dec. 1952

• Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Rights, Liberty

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “The Truman administration, its principles and practice”

• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Humor, Government

  Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) p. 51

• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Men, Liberty

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.345, New Word City

• Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Peace, War

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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