Quotes About Liberty

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

Independence is happiness.

No man may make another free.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

They have rights who dare defend them.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

There can be no such thing as justice unless there are freedom and equal conditions; there can be no such thing as equality unless there is freedom.

that in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.