Quotes About Liberty

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

I don't know what this Liberty thing is all about, Rachel. None of us do, yet. I pray that if we ever achieve it, we will know how to control it. And not let it control us.

Efficiency, liberty, justice, equality, the demands of the individual, and the demands of the group—all these things push us in different directions. And this, Berlin wrote, is unacceptable to many people:

freedom and fresh air

You don't have to take upon yourself the burden of murder or madness to be free of this place. Surly there must be other ways.

For with solitude had come freedom.

Pero nada podría darme aquella libertad, nada. Las libertades que me daba ella no significaban nada para mí; su poder no era, en definitiva, sino un grado más del que todos poseíamos. Y lo que poseen todos nunca ha facilitado la contienda; más bien la ha convertido en una agonía, por más que se gane o se pierda.

Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.

Freedom's easy to lose and hard to get back.

A liberdade costuma destruir as coisas, sabe.

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

it would be a kind boon in an overruling Providence to sweep from the earth the soil, along with the people. Better to be a wilderness of waste, than a lasting monument of lost liberty.

Wolin wrote that even when faced with certain defeat, all of us are called to the "awful responsibility" of the fight for justice, equality and liberty.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .