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Quotes About Liberty

I know of no better name than Anarchism.
~ Herbert Read
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
~ Rand Paul
I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
~ George W. Bush
This is the 21st century, and you cannot hold a nation captive against their will.
~ Mark Francois
For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.
~ Elliott Abrams
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
~ Rand Paul
The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.
~ Clive Lewis
I think that most people are natural libertarians.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
You're helping to bring freedom to the galaxy. So that one day, everywhere, people will be safe to express themselves. To enjoy, without fear. That's what the rebels want, in the end. That's all we want.
~ Christie Golden
The orgy room at Dave's Baths was democracy made flesh; race and social standing were checked at the door along with clothes.
~ Christopher Bram
However, it was best known to the delegates as stated by the French thinker Montesquieu. He pointed out that When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or the same body of magistry, there can be no liberty; because apprehension may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
~ Christopher Collier
Other nations, especially those enlightened and more old-fashioned in their notions, rebel, fight, and die for Liberty," wrote Bunch, while South Carolina "is prepared to do the same for slavery.
~ Christopher Dickey
Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life - that universal eligibility to be noble, as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it - is proper and common to all.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.
~ Christopher Hitchens
he none the less argued that 'an avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty' because it can accustom a nation 'to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws'.
~ Christopher Hitchens
the tree of liberty must be nurtured by the blood of tyrants, as well as of patriots).
~ Christopher Hitchens
Hay días en que echo de menos mis antiguas convicciones como si se trataran de un miembro amputado. Pero, en términos generales, me siento mejor y no menos radical; y usted también se sentirá mejor, se lo garantizo, cuando abandone las doctrinas y permita que su mente, libre de cadenas, piense por sí misma.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Pero, en términos generales, me siento mejor y no menos radical; y usted también se sentirá mejor, se lo garantizo, cuando abandone las doctrinas y permita que su mente, libre de cadenas, piense por sí misma.
~ Christopher Hitchens
All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?
~ Christopher Isherwood
Rather," Soval replied, "the people mutually consent to abide by those rules for their own collective benefit. They ensure their own safety and liberty by agreeing to respect others' safety and liberty—even when that requires making compromises. Absolute, unfettered freedom is only possible for one who lives absolutely alone. When one is part of a community, one must balance one's own freedoms and rights with those of others.
~ Christopher L. Bennett
Any freedom that can be given can be taken away.
~ Christopher Moore
The Bible is the anchor of our liberties
~ Ulysses S. Grant
It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This
~ Upton Sinclair