Quotes About Liberty

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

I am a passionate supporter of liberty, equality and popular sovereignty. These values have been championed by democratic giants for hundreds of years.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.

Justice Kennedy devoted his career to securing liberty. I am deeply honored to be nominated to fill his seat on the Supreme Court.

Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

When our security is under siege, so – inevitably – is our liberty. A world in which our every movement is observed erodes the very freedom this snooping is often calculated to protect. Naturally, we need to ensure that the social costs of the means employed to enhance security do not outweigh the benefits.

Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. As they did in Egypt, where liberty leading the masses was an earnest young woman in a black hijab.