Quotes About Liberty

I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

Nella natura femminile deve esserci qualcosa che fa sentire un uomo libero di abbandonarsi, e di esprimere i suoi sentimenti, anche i più teneri ed emotivi, senza timore che possano incrinare la sua virilità.

Já compreendemos que a aurora e o poente são os momentos em que goza liberdade peculiar; quando sua antiga natureza se manifesta sem nenhuma força controladora subjugá-la e impedir que fale conosco ou mesmo a incite a agir contra nós. Esse estado começa aproximadamente meia hora antes do amanhecer ou do crepúsculo e dura até o sol estar alto ou enquanto as nuvens ainda reluzem com os raios no horizonte.

paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.

You may have enslaved our bodies, but our hearts and minds will always be free!

what good is freedom if we can't do what we want?

Wherever caste lives, wherever class power exists, whether it be on the Thames or on the Seine, whether on the Ganges or on the Danube, there the South has an ally.… Never until we welcome the Negro, the foreigner, all races as equals, and melted together in a common nationality, hurl them all at despotism, will the North deserve triumph or earn it at the hands of a just God.

He lets me fly.

Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.

We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. LATIN PROVERB

The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler's contemporaries, that "in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception." Science fiction was a new idea at the time of the Thirty Years' War, and Kepler's book was used as evidence that his mother was a witch.

But the creed of liberty means nothing if it is only our own liberty that excites us.

in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. EPICTETUS, Roman philosopher and former slave, Discourses

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

It is language's lack of visualisability which confers such enviable freedom upon it. Seeing language as no more than an image or representation of reality is a way of restricting its liberty.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.