Quotes About Liberty

He who is brave is free.

It had become quite clear to me that I gated being told what to do. I wanted to be independent.

By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Robert

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

Yes, each religion has to provide instructions for its followers as to how to live in our present- day world. But to take this change itself as the ''principle'' which should drive us on, as if we were picked up like a horse and driven against our will, that is not only against religion, but also against everything for which the Western ideas of liberty and freedom have stood.

To be sure, my freedom lay simply in the fact that no one cared any longer where I went or what I did.

The only real freedom any of us have is making our own decisions.

Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and Paks and Jocks And they'll take you from this dump you're in and stick you in a box Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round!

Education liberates a woman.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

When anyone escapes, my heart leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, I am half on the side of the leaver.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this land, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

An open and (semi-) free society cannot realistically expect to eliminate the risk of indiscriminate violence. The cost in liberty and dignity would be way too high — and the attempt would fail. Moreover, the risk of violence perpetrated by our guardians would not be eliminated but augmented.

Fourteenth of July.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.