Quotes About Liberty

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.

Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I just like my independence and freedom to come and go and not have an entourage.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

It was, however, a delicate matter for colonists to accuse the British of trying to enslave them, because abject slavery was such a prominent feature of colonial life. This was noted with irony, of course, in England, where Dr. Samuel Johnson, for example, asked, "How is it that the loudest yelps for liberty come from the drivers of slaves?

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

There is no greater threat to a free and democratic nation than a government that fails to protect its citizen's freedom and liberty as aggressively as it pursues justice.