Quotes About Freedom

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.

Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they've forbidden religious practice.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

Guess who puzzled their minds and freed their imaginations.

Carmen will always be free.

Me dicas vriardâ de jorpoy, bus ne sino braco. (proverbe bohémien: Je suis habillée de laine, mais je ne suis pas mouton.)

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liverty or anarchy.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

Out of debt, out of danger.

A married man is a caged bird.

A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. #Extraditionplea

Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home

Debt is the slavery of the free.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Isn't it strange, when you feel full, you are light as air, but when you feel empty and hollow you feel an enormous weight crushing you down. Will I ever be free from the burden or be able to touch and see without feeling the heartbreak in the heart of things?

Letters and science will only take their proper place in the work of human development when, freed from all mercenary bondage, they will be exclusively cultivated by those who love them, and for those who love them.

We take men for what they are worth-and that is why we hate the government of man by man

After bread has been secured,' he wrote presciently, 'leisure is the supreme aim.

The "right to well-being" means the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours, whilst the "right to work" only means the right to be always a wage-slave, a drudge, ruled over and exploited by the middle class of the future.