Quotes About Liberty

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

there any evidence that Henry ever uttered the other famous remark attributed to him: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." Indeed, there is no evidence that Henry ever said anything of substance or found space in his head for a single original thought. He

Thanks to this ruling, states now had the right to perform surgery on healthy citizens against their will—a liberty never before extended in any advanced country. Yet the case attracted almost no attention.

Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I'm not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.

It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. [applause] It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders

The best kind of nation was one where the government feared the people. When the government feared the people there was liberty. When the people feared the government, there was tyranny.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both. The

As Ben Franklin was alleged to have said, those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserve neither and will lose both.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little security deserved neither and would lose both.

Those who would trade a little liberty for a little added security, deserve neither and will lose both.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: All of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves.

Is there anything else ye require, aside from yer freedom and a coach with four white horses to carry ye away from here?" "The horses don't have to be white," she returned. "I'm not particular.

Let It Go!!

Man is certainly free, but he is responsible for this freedom before God as before men. This responsibility is inevitably moral. In order of this morality, to be free is to protect the freedom of others and their dignities.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

We only live once and every day spent living your principles is a day at liberty. It is clear that history is on our side.

You have my permission to be completely free." She wondered if he said that to every woman he brought on board. "I don't need your permission to be free.

We're guessing the bonjour ritual is expanding because it underlines equality—a principle the French value much more than either liberty or fraternity.

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A man is always more than a man and always less than a man, more than a man because he has in himself all that jazz suggests and even anticipates, and less than a man because he has made an aesthetic and sterile game out of this liberty, a chessboard where one must be bishop or knight, a definition of liberty which is taught in school, in the very schools where the pupils are never taught ragtime rhythm of the first notes of the blue, and so forth and so on.