Quotes About Liberty

A Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

Meditar previamente sobre a morte é meditar previamente sobre a liberdade.Quem aprendeu a morrer desaprendeu a se subjugar. Não há nenhum mal na vida para aquele que bem compreendeu que a privação da vida não é um mal. Saber morrer liberta-nos de toda sujeição e imposição.

Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est préméditation de la liberté. Qui a appris à mourir, il a désappris à servir. Le savoir mourir nous affranchit de toute sujétion et contrainte. Il n'y a rien de mal en la vie pour celui qui a bien compris que la privation de la vie n'est pas mal.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government. Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated...

Liberty, far from putting man in possession of himself, ceaselessly alienates him from his essence and his world

ten-thirty in the morning, being free

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. If we cannot change the world, let's at least change our lives and live them freely.

Missão, Tereza, é uma palavra idiota. Eu não tenho missão. Ninguém tem missão. E é um alívio enorme perceber que somos livres, que não temos missão.

Qué había querido decirle con su regalo? Que fuera libre. Que viviera como quería vivir, que fuera a donde quería ir. El nunca se había atrevido. Por eso le había dado todos los medios a su hija para que ella se atreviera.

Mission, Tereza, c'est de la foutaise. Je n'ai pas de mission. Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

Los recuerdos tristes también lo atan a uno. —¿A qué lo atan? ¿A quedarse en el mismo sitio en el que nació? No entiendo cómo alguien puede hablar de libertad y no liberarse de semejante carga. Es como si el árbol pudiera tener su hogar en un sitio en el que no puede crecer. El hogar del árbol está allí donde encuentra humedad para vivir.

Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis

Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.

The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth, including illegal drugs, than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.