Quotes About Liberty

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

If we timidly submit to tyranny, we will never have the chance to test our wings.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

The erosion of democracy and decency feels like a widening crack on the face of liberty.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

the more freedom you have, the more happiness you have.

the proscription against married Roman Catholic priests is not doctrinal and could be changed if a pope were so inclined. "I have no problems with celibacy withering away," said Archbishop Keith O'Brien, president of the Scottish Bishops' Conference. "There is no theological problem with it ending. The loss of celibacy would give liberty to priests to exercise their God-given gift of love and sex rather than feeling they must be celibate all their lives.

freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.

No man was more sensitive than Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collectivities. He would have viewed with horror the cacophony of monomanias—sexual, racial, social, egalitarian—that marks the intellectual life of our societies, each monomaniac demanding legislative restriction on the freedom of others in the name of a supposed greater, collective good.

I am convinced that happiness is not possible unless it is based on freedom.

FREEDOM IS THE basis of all happiness. Without freedom, there is no happiness.

Happiness isn't possible without freedom.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

I wish everyone could just be free.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.