Quotes About Liberty

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

I drink to not giving a damn . . .

How come no one tells a rabbit to settle down? It's completely kosher for all of you to "fuck like bunnies" – in fact, it's part of the job description.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Capitalismul trebuie s? justifice ?i s? mitizeze contradic?iile încastrate în rela?iile sale sociale: promisiunea libert??ii fa?? de realitatea coerci?iei la scar? larg? ?i promisiunea prosperit??ii fa?? de realitatea s?r?ciei la scar? larg?.

America is basically about freedom.

I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where everything is planned: I would much rather have liberty to make a fool of myself than become an ideal citizen by regulation. - George Taylor

The evidence which we have of the great facts of the Bible history belongs to this class, that is, it is moral evidence; sufficient to satisfy any rational mind, by carrying it to the highest degree of moral certainty. If such evidence well justify the taking away of human life or liberty, in the one case, surely it ought to be deemed sufficient to determine our faith in the other.

a young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that "our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to become one of those cadavers.

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.