Quotes About Liberty

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable to be a liberal.

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.

There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him".

Finally liberty has come!

To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

The four L's: Love Light Life Liberty!!

Love is a light of liberty.

You won't be free as long as you're afraid.

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

never trust the words of a man who is not free.

You don't become completely free just by avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.

At the limit, you can decide whether to be (relatively) poor, but free of your time, or rich but as dependent as a slave.

Freedom entails risks—real skin in the game. Freedom is never free.

Era livre quem aceitava viver o que havia para ser vivido. Era livre quem fazia dos pensamentos saúde e riqueza, e não uma armadilha para acabar asfixiado.