Quotes About Liberty

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

The Bastille had melted away, the prisoners no longer existed.

A hundred pounds," Mr. Barrow remarked succinctly. "All expensive material, and made at a Parisian modiste's. He spent money lavishly enough, that young man." Miss Minchin felt offended. This seemed to be a disparagement of her best patron and was a liberty. Even solicitors had no right to take liberties.

and felt it as well to make his own freedom from responsibility quite clear without any delay.

You are free. You just don't know it yet.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

My countrymen, we hold a rich deposit in trust for ourselves and for all our brethren of mankind. It is the fire of liberty. If it becomes extinguished, our darkened land will cast a mournful shadow over the nations. If it lives, its blaze will enlighten and gladden the whole earth.

Sloboda može bit vrlo samotno stanje.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran

Recherchez la liberté et devenez esclave de vos désirs. Recherchez la discipline et trouvez votre liberté.

Pero no nos lamentemos por la falta de justicia mientras tengamos brazos y seamos libres para usarlos.

Freedom lies within.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the sweet land of liberty. Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate through material prosperity as to become what its European critics, with too much justice, have scornfully renamed it the Land of the Dollar - such a development will be one of the sorriest conclusions of history, and the most colossal disillusionment that has ever happened to mankind.

Look at your facts, look at your figures. I am a free American citizen, ain't I? I pay my taxes to support a good government, don't I? It's a contract between me and the government, ain't it? Well, then, by damn! if the authorities do not or will not afford me protection for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then my obligations are at an end; I withhold my taxes. I do—I do—I say I do. What?" He glared about him, seeking opposition.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

First of all, the free man is superior to the bound man. Now the man is in fact free: he can go wherever he wishes, the entrance to the Law alone is denied to him, and this only by one person, the doorkeeper. If he sits on the stool at the side of the door and spends the rest of his life there, he does so of his own free will; the story mentions no element of force.

it's often better to be in chains than to be free.