Quotes About Liberty

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

A people well informed cannot be enslaved.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there is no other means than free contracts, by which to form combinations or build up relations of any kind. Compulsion by laws of any kind or in any form is absolutely excluded by the very orders of liberty and equality.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A hundred times have I seized a dagger, to give ease to this oppressed heart. Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Free speech is life itself.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.