Quotes About Liberty

It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.

according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.

Me había convertido en un maestro en el arte de destruir todo sentimiento en ese minuto exacto en que la voluntad desempeña un papel decisivo en el amor, cuando, al borde de la pasión, nos hallamos aún en libertad de abandonarla o lanzarnos a ella.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

For freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

But that won't give me a free hand to hold the beer.

if you give it wings, it wants to fly away.

The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. "...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. F***, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup."

The fundamental liberty interest of natural parents in the care, custody, and management of their child does not evaporate simply because they have not been model parents or have lost temporary custody of their child to the State.

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

A man's limbs, (by which for the present we only understand those members which may be useful to him in fight, and the loss of which only amounts to mayhem by the common law) are also the gift of the wise creator; to enable man to protect himself from external injuries in a state of nature. To these therefore he has a natural inherent right; and they cannot be wantonly destroyed or disabled without a manifest breach of civil liberty.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

If you can't offend people in a free society, then the question you have to ask yourself is, "Just how free is it?

You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

You can't live without cracks in the brain. You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice.

We should welcome all men of every shade of religious opinion, as among the best means of checking the arrogance and intolerance which are the almost inevitable concomitants of general conformity. Liberty always flourishes best amid the clash and competition of rival religious creeds.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism—that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Ho Chi Minn's dictum: "Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.