Quotes About Liberty

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir "The Demon's Daughter

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Berikan kepadaku mereka yang lelah dan papa Yang terbelenggu dan mendambakan kebebasan Yang terbanting ke pantaimu, berimpitan lemas Beri aku para gelandangan, dan yang terhempas Akan kunyalakan pelitaku di sisi gerbang emas

Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingts ans de mensonge d'avant.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

la libertad es un recurso que sólo existe en primera persona. La libertad no puede ser dada por alguien más: es algo que la persona misma debe tomar.

liberty and the homeland of the Jews. Athenian democracy had shifted to Washington, and ancient Judaism had taken a secular form in the state of Israel.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Only the educated are free.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Alvan Stewart, a prolific writer and speaker against slavery from New York, developed the argument that the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which barred depriving any person of "life, liberty, or property" without due process of law, made slavery unconstitutional. Slaves, said Stewart, should go to court and obtain writs of habeas corpus ordering their release from bondage.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Do you know why so many of us live alone?" a Swedish statistician I interview in the charming Old Town district asks me. He quickly answers his own question: "Because we can.

As President Truman put it, "Being an American is more than a matter of where you or your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal.

one's thoughts were regulated by the power of the state, how could one really be free?

freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor without faith. —Alexis de Tocqueville W

the Golden Triangle of Freedom is, when reduced to its most basic form, that freedom requires virtue; virtue requires faith; and faith requires freedom.

There hardly ever seem to be "encounters" in this great country, in which the one can always avoid the other. But where there is no encounter, where liberty is the only unifying factor, one naturally knows nothing of the community which is created through encounter. The whole life together is completely different as a result. Community in our sense, whether cultural or ecclesiastical, cannot develop there. Is

democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders.