Quotes About Liberty

Hactar had been shocked by the whole idea. He tried to explain that he had been thinking about this Ultimate Weapon business, and had worked out that there was no conceivable consequence of not setting the bomb off that was worse than the known consequence of setting it off, and he had therefore taken the liberty of introducing a small flaw into the design of the bomb, and he hoped that everyone involved would, on sober reflection, feel that

On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox walked out of Capanne Prison a free woman, escorted by her family, on her way to a flight back home to Seattle, while Raffaele Sollecito headed to his father's house and liberty, soon to enroll at the University of Verona to continue his college studies.

Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you'll never have your freedom.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

What are blessings in freedom are curses in slavery.

I did not really seek liberty. I am a civilised man. The civilised man knows there is no such thing. Only the younger and cruder nations put the word Liberty on their banner. There must always be a planned framework of security. And the essence of civilisation is that the way of life should be a moderate one.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

I'm glad that civil liberties continue to have some standing in this country.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

The economic crisis seemed to have taught them a lesson: that liberty without discipline was a formula for ruin.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming.

We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to think about how we maintain civil rights and personal freedom.

We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.