Quotes About Liberty

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.

If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.

True liberty comes from education, knowledge, and wisdom.

You are free to do anything you want, provided you are not a beneficiary of others effort.

Wisdom frees men, even if they are in prison.

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...