Quotes About Liberty

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

I was free, yes, but what good was freedom without knowledge?

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

let nature reign, let freedom sing.

Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.

Paradoxically, without self-control you can't be free.

Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked power. For the sake of personal liberty and free community, power ought to be divided and hedged. Might this slow the actions of the state? Well, be it so, Montesquieu thought: freedom is better than haste.

It is characteristic of the radical that he thinks of power as a force for good—so long as the power falls into his hands. In the name of liberty, the French and Russian revolutionaries abolished the old restraints upon power; but power cannot be abolished; it always finds its way into someone's hands. That power which the revolutionaries had thought oppressive in the hands of the old regime became many times as tyrannical in the hands of the radical new masters of the state.

For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Freedom is such a gift.

My survival is not my body, Amas-Garao. My survival is my freedom. I do what I will, because I will it.

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

You can be as FREE as you WANT to be - what does that look like for YOU?

Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.

Talpra magyar, hí a haza! Itt az id?, most vagy soha! Rabok legyünk vagy szabadok? Ez a kérdés, válasszatok! – A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk!

Samobójstwo to ?wi?te prawo cz?owieka wolnego, ostateczna afirmacja wolno?ci.

Suicide is the holy right of a free man, the last affirmation of freedom.

When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?

I have a right to do whatsoever I like within the limits of possibility, and everything is possible which is not contradictory; consequently the field of liberty is infinite.

You are either free or not free