Quotes About Liberty

TRUE, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Whatever institutions or forms of government have been devised through the ages, the idea of liberty has remained constant: the right of each man to consult his conscience without reference to authorities or majorities, custom or opinion.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

La perfetta uguaglianza è la base necessaria della libertà. Vale a dire, è necessario che fra quelli fra' quali il potere è diviso, non vi sia squilibrio di potere; e nessuno ne abbia più né meno di un altro. Perché in questo e non in altro è riposta l'idea, l'essenza e il fondamento della libertà.

With the sole aim of liberating themselves from the servitude of religion, which alone could preserve them in society, and, lacking any other restraint, they turned their backs upon the true God of their fathers, Adam and Noah, and descended into a bestial liberty in which, dispersed throughout the great forest of the earth, they lost their language and weakened every social custom.

Watts said that real freedom was not freedom of choice but freedom from choice.

La verità è che la grande massa del popolo italiano lo sente e ne dà prova con la tranquilla indifferenza con cui assiste alle calorose proteste e querimonie delle opposizioni, che chi lavora oggi in Italia, per la libertà della Nazione nel mondo, non è l'antifascismo, ma il Fascismo,

He renunciado desde hace tiempo a todas mis direcciones y paticipaciones industriales para comprarme la cosa más cara -en sentido económico y moral- del mundo: la libertad. Un lujo que no está al alcance hoy, ni siquiera de un simple millonario. Supongo que soy uno de los cinco o seis hombres apróximadamente libres que viven en la tierra.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

Freedom means freedom from judgment. Freedom from that which binds and holds one back. Freedom from misconception. Freedom from anything that is not in complete resonance and harmony.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Pays de muets, pays de la belle endormie, merveilleux mais sans vie parce qu'y manque le souffle de la liberté. Aujourd'hui comme hier.

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

For those of Hamiltonian inclination, liberty tended to be positively defined, freedom to—the right to pursue personal entrepreneurship, and expect government support. Jefferson, who had after all drafted the Declaration of Independence, tended to emphasize a negatively defined freedom from—the right not to be interfered with, not to be tyrannized. These differences of opinion have divided American politics right down to the present day.

You are a guardian and protector of liberty. You may be the only thing that stands between freedom and slavery. And if you can, join those who are willing to take a stand in Washington, DC on 9-12. If not, stand together somewhere in your community on 9-12. Get involved. They're very well organized in their communities, and I didn't realize how many socialist communities there were.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm—our "persons, houses, papers, and effects," as the Fourth Amendment puts it. We do so precisely because that realm is the crucible of so many of the attributes typically associated with the quality of life—creativity, exploration, intimacy.

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

A population, a country that venerates physical safety above all other values will ultimately give up its liberty and sanction any power seized by authority in exchange for the promise, no matter how illusory, of total security. However, absolute safety is itself chimeric, pursued by never obtained. The pursuit degrades those who engage in it as well as any nation that comes to be defined by it.

Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he'd rid this country of the secret police, yet he creates his own. That isn't a man I can trust.