Quotes About Liberty

Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

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.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free." A

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away.

No one may force anyone to be happy according to his manner of imagining the well-being of other men; instead, everyone may seek his happiness in the way that seems good to him as long as he does not infringe on the freedom of others to pursue a similar purpose, when such freedom may coexist with the freedom of every other man according to a possible and general law.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor. —HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages.

God loves me enough to give me choices and the liberty to make them. In turn, I am to love God's other children enough to have faith in their ability to make choices.

Are these the people, created in greatness by the work of Jefferson and Franklin, he thought, are these the bitter farmers and hunters and craftsmen who came out of the wilderness, furious for liberty and justice, is this the new world of giants sung by Whitman?

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The human mind resents control.

It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

All is bad that is imposed from without,' said Lizalor.

Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do," said Valmorain. "Just as whites are enslaving each other, monsieur," the physician countered. "Not all Negroes are slaves, nor all slaves black. Africa is a continent of free people. Millions of Africans are subjected to slavery but many more are free. Slavery is not their destiny, just as is also the case with thousands of whites who are slaves.

No hay libertad sin independencia económica.

Ya no es necesario, podemos ejercer nuestro poder desde la feminidad. Como Eliza, adquirimos libertad y seguimos luchando para preservarla, ampliarla y lograr que alcance para todas.

Más valía morir en la rebelíon que vivir en la esclavitud