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Quotes About Liberty

Free spirit" sounded way better than "drunken slack-ass.
~ Weldon Burge
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
~ Wendell Phillips
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
~ Wendell Phillips
The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.
~ Wendell Phillips
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
~ Wendell Willkie
The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.
~ Wendy Brown
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
~ Wendy McElroy
The message of this book is: There's nothing to be afraid of. Pornography is part of a healthy free flow of information about sex. This is information our society badly needs. It is a freedom women need.
~ Wendy McElroy
The issue that united the anti-slavery and feminist movements was a demand for the right of every human being to control his or her own body and property. This same principle is the core of individualist feminism today.
~ Wendy McElroy
We know that freedom has a price. Democracy has a price. But maybe we paid a price that is higher than freedom and higher than democracy. There is always a price for freedom. But not this much.
~ Wendy Pearlman
Yo pini Ayisyen paske Ayisyen te premye nasyon nwa ki te ede e ki te anseye anpil peyi kijan pou yo jwenn libète yo. Atravè ane yo, yo pini Ayiti pou liberasyon anpil esklav atravè mond lan. Malerezman, se pou sa yo pa vle Ayiti pwospere.
~ Werley Nortreus
Yo pini Ayiti paske Ayiti se premye nasyon nwa ki te ede epi montre anpil peyi kijan pou yo jwenn libète yo. Pandan ane yo, yo pini Ayiti pou liberasyon anpil esklav atravè lemond.
~ Werley Nortreus
A bird that doesn't know freedom doesn't know what wings are for.
~ Wesley D'Amico
Üstelik, sana bir y???n söz söyleyerek, senin ve ya?am?n?n, ailenin ve çocuklar?n?n birer hiç oldu?unu anlat?yorlar; aptal, köleli?e elveri?li ve ba?kalar?n?n kullanaca?? birer insan oldu?unuzu söylüyorlar, insan?n size diledi?i i?lemi uygulayaca??n? hayk?r?yorlar. Size "ki?isel özgürlük" de?il "ulusal özgürlük" vaat ediyorlar.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~ Will Durant
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
~ Will Durant
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~ Will Durant
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
~ Will Durant
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
~ Will Durant
But the agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions changed all that, and the resulting explosion of personal liberty has created a bewildering array of options, alternatives, choices, and decisions that our ancestors never faced. For the very first time, our happiness is in our hands.
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
Texans are no longer comfortable with submitting their political will to a people who, they perceive, wouldn't know liberty and good government if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. There is a precedent for this feeling in Texas. The Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico specifically calls out the other Mexican States for their weakness in the face of Santa Anna's tyranny.
~ Daniel Miller
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
~ Daniel Pennac
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
~ Daniel Pennac
The man is free who is protected from injury.
~ Daniel Webster