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Quotes About Liberty

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.
~ Malcolm X
You cannot separate peace and freedom .Because noone can be at peace unless he has his freedom .
~ Malcolm X
This is why I say it's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
~ Malcolm X
Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy. Him
~ Marcus Aurelius
a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No man can rob us of our free will.
~ Marcus Aurelius
love of family, love of truth, love of justice, and (thanks to him!) to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and the conception of a state with one law for all, based upon individual equality and freedom of speech, and of a sovrainty which prizes above all things the liberty of the subject;
~ Marcus Aurelius
The liberty that the Band of Brothers fought for was not a freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want, but rather a freedom from tyranny, a freedom of self-determination, a freedom to make something of our lives.
~ Marcus Brotherton
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cuando lo hombres renuncian voluntariamente a su libertad po su seguridad, pronto pierden incluso esa degradada seguridad
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are of course fully in control of what you choose to read
~ Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the day of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
~ Margaret Atwood
I keep walking. I feel daring, light-headed. They are not my best friends or even my friends. Nothing binds me to them. I am free.
~ Margaret Atwood
to quote George Orwell: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." And to quote him again: three words: Tell. The. Truth.
~ Margaret Atwood
So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different thing altogether.
~ Margaret Atwood
Una rata que está dentro de un laberinto es libre de ir a cualquier sitio, siempre que permanezca dentro del laberinto.
~ Margaret Atwood
Hasta que uno no ha perdido la reputación, no comprende que era un peso enorme y que la libertad es algo formidable.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.
~ Alcee Hastings
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.
~ Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
~ Harriet Tubman