Quotes About Liberty

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law was slim and liberty was enormous, where you could make your way in the world based on your own ambition and abilities, not fenced in by the limitations of society.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the government interfering.

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

They've all been held captive, of their own free will, of course, and yet when set free, they are lost.

The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution.

He is concerned by polls showing that Americans' support for the First Amendment—which guarantees the constitutional right to free expression—is waning, especially among younger Americans, who are increasingly intolerant of dissenting opinion. Grygorenko sees this as a sign that society prefers the false peace of conformity to the tensions of liberty. To grow indifferent, even hostile, to free speech is suicidal for a free people.

Since then, lobbyists for national and international corporations have leaned heavily on state governments to pass pro-LGBT legislation and to resist religious liberty laws.

Now, in liberty and relative prosperity, the children of the last communist generation have fallen to a more subtle, sophisticated tyranny: one that tells them that anything they find difficult is a form of oppression. For these millennials, unhappiness is slavery and freedom is liberation from the burden of unchosen obligations.

declared their independence.

tempted by Hannibal's offer to ensure the 'liberty of the Hellenes

compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?

not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the 'liberty of Hellas

Si la vida de una persona está sujeta a sus circunstancias, sus memorias, sus aptitudes y sus tendencias, es difícil encontrar un espacio para la libertad, pues parece sometida a una estructura determinista. Pero si la persona, para tomar decisiones libres, pudiera ser insensible a su entorno y a su pasado, entonces viviría una vida sometida al azar. ¿Sería una vida basada en la libertad o más bien una existencia sumergida en el absurdo?

Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom.

In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Bir kimsenin ancak sorumlu oldu?u ölçüde özgür olabilece?i paradoksu özgürlü?ün her noktas?nda merkezdedir. Fakat aksi de do?rudur. Bir kimse ancak özgür oldu?unda sorumlu olabilir.

there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound up to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation, no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.

During all those years, you know, in the maquis, I was always asking myself whether it was for liberty, for France, that I was risking my life, or whether it was simply to keep up my self-image. Give me a whiskey, will you? I sat down. — Anyhow, I am not going to change that image.

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.