Quotes About Liberty

Freedom all solace to man gives He lives at ease who freely lives.

Na he, that ay has levyt fre, May nocht knaw weill the propyrte, The angyr, na the wrechyt dome, That is cowplyt to foule thyrldome.

Freedom all solace to man gives;He lives at ease that freely lives.

He that ay has livit fre May nocht knaw weil the propirte The anger, na the wrechit dome That is couplit to foul thraldome. Bot gif he had assayit it, Then all par coeur he sould it wit, And sould think freedome mair to prys Than all the gold in warld that is.

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times."

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

The best government is no government at all.

And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.

Your freedom and mine cannot be seperated

They were called "rooms," but it was still a cell. A room you could leave when you chose to do so; a cell you could not.

The new version would cover both opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage. Immediately thereafter, the Family Research Council, an influential conservative Christian lobbying organization, withdrew its support.60 The reason is obvious: Their goal in supporting FADA was not to protect freedom but to signal disapproval of same-sex marriage. It was liberty for me, but not for thee—a repeat of the Puritan mistake.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

We naturally associate democracy… with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

I am as free as Nature first made man,Ere the base laws of servitude began,When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind.

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.