Quotes About Liberty

The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)

For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.

Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.

No man can be trapped without his consent.

In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love.

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a one-foot chain.

Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.

And we even recognise the apparent paradox that some limitations to our freedoms have the consequence of making us freer overall.

Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.

But he who desireth to walk at liberty with Me, must of necessity mortify all his evil and inordinate affections, and must cling to no creature with selfish love.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The root of liberty is the will as the subject thereof; but it is the reason as its cause. For the will can tend freely towards various objects precisely because the reason can have various perceptions of the good. Hence, philosophers define free-decision as being a free judgment arising from reason, implying that reason is the cause of liberty.

O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting" there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise of the same. A most free commonwealth of "voters;" but with Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by Almighty Power!

Liberty is a gift and power that extends even to the determination of our eternal and self-chosen destiny. This is one reason a single person is of greater worth than the whole of the subhuman cosmos.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.