Quotes About Liberty

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

I don't want to confine you, I don't want to control you. I want to set you free.

There is everywhere the life of the people, everywhere liberty, everywhere a free atmosphere, everywhere popular supervision, everywhere responsibility. Some people speak of bosses. There were no bosses at all in the Socialist party. Supervision was exercised or can be exercised over those so-called bosses. It used to depend--and it still depends--on the members to invoke the relevant statutory regulations. A strong supervisory control is organized by them and depends only on their initiative.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

All revolutions lead only to another form of slavery.

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

It is a dire calamity to have a slave; it is an expiable curse to be one.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can't even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it.

His parties have room for all. Come on in. Nobody to look at you funny in here. Nobody to tell you not to have that drink, kiss that fella, smash that chair, light that chandelier on fire. Do it all. Do it all forever.

aim to live as a slave to Christ, because only then am I free…. We're all in some kind of bondage …. Most of us have the freedom to choose that slavery, whether we realize it or not." I'd

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think.

a few dreamers believed you could build a nation upon ideas such as liberty and equality.

Liberty has never come from the government," Wilson had told his audience. "Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.