Quotes About Liberty

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

a man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

The liberty of the individual is not a benefit of culture. It was greatest before any culture, though indeed it had little value at that time, because the individual was hardly in a position to defend it.

Kolem roku 1790, když byla ratifikována Listina svobod, mohl soukromÄ› mluvit kdokoliv s kýmkoliv - s jistotou, jakou už dnes nemá nikdo - prostÄ› tak, že popoÅ¡el po cestÄ› kousek od ostatních a podíval se, jestli se nÄ›kdo neskrývá v keÃ…â"¢ích.

It was an idea consonant with Trench's underlying thought, that any grand new dictionary ought to be itself a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Mais même au XIX siècle elles étaient souvent obligées de se cacher; elles n'avaient pas même 'une chambre à elles', c'est-à-dire qu'elles ne jouissaient pas de cette indépendance matérielle qui est une des conditions nécessaires de la liberté intérieure.

O homem é livre; mas ele encontra a lei na sua própria liberdade.

Christian liberty does not mean that you welcome fellow Christians only when you have sorted out their views on X or Y (or with a view to doing that).

True Christian liberty, unlike the various freedom or liberation movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the rights we have.

In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word Fascism and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor.

Era, por tanto, libre como una alondra -es decir, todo lo libre que se puede ser con un ingreso diario de once chelines y medio-.

Nuestra mente debe ser tan libre como la misma naturaleza- Sherlock Holmes, Estudio en escarlata

I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.

Death the deliverer freeth all at last.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

The only object of liberty is life.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.