Quotes About Liberty

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

this IS the time when man must be Free.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

I MUST CREATE A SYSTEM OR BE ENSLAVED BY ANOTHER MAN'S." —WILLIAM BLAKE

At any rate it is impossible to live intelligently as a member of a minority group in a nation that was founded every bit as firmly on enslavement and butchery as on ideals of liberty and brotherhood and not feel, at least every once in a while, that you can no more take for granted the continued tolerance of your existence here than you ought take the prosperity or freedom you enjoy.

If I could work without the pants on," he said, "I would go naked.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before. He was beyond the reach of all the things that had weighed him down and hemmed him in.

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In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

The revolution has to be self-liberation.

What is it with you freedom-loving Americans? he asked. Live free or die. I don't get it. I say, "Regulate me gently. I'd rather live.