Quotes About Liberty

In this country, amid the clash of arms, the laws are not silent. They may be changed, but they speak the same language in war as in peace. It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which…we are now fighting, that the judges…stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the executive, alert to see that any coercive action is prohibited in law.100

It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Break the lockup of thoughts and live free.

People fight harder for power than they do for freedom despite freedom is power.

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

nobody was truly free. Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

Perhaps all freedom—physical, personal—really only came at the cost of somebody or something else.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

To fret about political, social, or economic inequality in a free society is to fret about the problem of freedom itself, for in the presence of freedom there will always be inequality of some kind.