Quotes About Liberty

They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all; to prevent the few from governing the many, and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.

but there is no money to be made by burning libraries. Instead, libraries are usually burned because they contain ideas that someone finds problematic.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

In [Two Treatises of Government], John Locke explained that he had discovered universal laws that could predict how people should act. Every man and woman, Locke wrote, was equal. Every human being had, by "natural law," the right to seek "life, health, liberty, and possession.

On the 9th day of May, 1862, at which time there were nearly four millions of your race in bondage, sanctioned by the laws of the land and protected by our flag,--on that day, in the face of the floods of prejudice that well-nigh deluged every avenue to manhood and true liberty, you came forth to do battle for your country and kindred.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. . . ." — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1689

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free.

For a moment we knew what it felt like to be free.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

freedom is the first condition of growth. What you do not make free, will never grow.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.