Quotes About Liberty

Politics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Freedom equals power.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

the right to think, to speak, and to write in freedom and without fear is ultimately a more sacred thing than any religion.

in response to a US interviewer who mocked her appreciation of relative US freedoms) I read Alexis de Tocqueville, and I read about democracy, and I lived in countries that had no democracies, that had no founding fathers, so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you do not know what it is not to have freedom.

If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't

If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. —Terence McKenna

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

NÆ°á»›c nào không có tá»± do báo chí thì cÅ©ng không th? có dân ch?.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Does not the American Declaration of Independence talk of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? If a yogi had written that, he would have said, Life, Happiness, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Sometimes happiness may bring stagnation, but if freedom comes from disciplined happiness, there is the possibility of true liberation.

When other sources of leisure become possible, the one use of slavery is past. But all its evils remain, and even grow worse.

Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty in areas of non-harmful conduct.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.