Quotes About Liberty

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

No law can shackle human thought

Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."18

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Independence existed for individual before liberty was established for all.

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Total liberty for Black people or total destruction for America.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

but there had been nothing equal to it since the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. (In 1685 Louis XIV had removed that freedom granted to the Huguenots by Henry IV to practise their own religion; it led to persecution followed by widespread emigration.) It was an odd comparison since the Revocation removed a liberty and Catholic Emancipation granted it.

El mayor disparate de nuestros ancestros fue imaginar que las cosas fundamentales surgen por decreto creador (divino o gubernativo) y se extinguen por decreto derogatorio (divino o gubernativo), cuando en realidad brotan de un impersonal espíritu humano obligado sin pausa a aprender de sus equivocaciones, dentro de procesos aleatorios que constituyen la historia de su propia libertad.