Quotes About Liberty

This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,—That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje

Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past—as it is to some extent a fiction of the present—the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.

That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all;

I had now regained my liberty, said the stranger; but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people.

But we've so befogged and befouled the whole question of liberty, of spontaneity, of good humour, and inclination, and enjoyment, that there's nothing that makes people stare so as to see on natural.

But we've so befogged and befouled the whole question of liberty, of spontaneity, of good humor, and inclination, and enjoyment, that there's nothing that makes people stare so as to see one natural

No particular reason for anything. I'm free - that's the main thing.

No particular reason for getting off here. No particular reason for anything. I'm free -- that's the main thing...

Resolve, and thou art free.

Buatlah keputusan, maka anda akan bebas.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.

I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.