Quotes About Liberty

Space and scarcity give us dignity. And liberty. And thereby beauty.

I don't see the world getting any better; like you I see it getting worse. I see liberty being strangled like a dog everywhere I look, I see my own country overwhelmed by ugliness and mediocrity and overcrowding, the land smothered under airstrips and superhighways, the natural wealth of a million years squandered on atomic bombs and tin automobiles and television sets and ball-point fountain pens. It's a sorry sight indeed; I can't blame you for wanting no part of it.

Freedom begins between the ears.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Les gens qui ont de l'argent sont libres, après tout, d'être aussi bizarres qu'ils le veulent.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man.

Justice the Guardian of Liberty.

It was resolved, That England was too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in.

That no man of what estate or condition, shall be put out of land or tenement, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without being brought in answer by due process of law.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America—liberty and property, and no stamps.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

No one is free when others are oppressed.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose,And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Words want to be free!

Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont

Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.