Quotes About Liberty

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Nada tenía sentido en su plan. Pero ¿qué más daba? Muy de vez en cuando, todo el mundo tenía derecho a cometer alguna locura, y ahora era su turno.

His memory had abandoned him, and though he had searched within himself all these weeks, he could find no desire to have it returned. If it came back now, he felt he would turn it away, and the knowledge of this renouncement, a small act of defiance, gave him a feeling of liberty.

Mill argued in The Subjection of Women (1869) that the sexes should be treated equally both in law and in society more generally.

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty?

Eu nada espero. Eu nada temo. Eu sou livre.

I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.

There was a good Constitution in America, and he had read it carefully. It gave liberty, but he recognized that it worked only for people in skins whose color ran from pink to tan. People with darker skins might as well have fur or feathers.

Es «antiliberal y amoral» el formar a los niños para que trabajen «sin apelar a la libertad ni a la inteligencia, sino en nombre del salario».

Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it "opposes the exploitation of man by man.

To challenge the right of investors to determine who lives, who dies, and how they live and die—that would be a significant move toward Enlightenment ideals (actually the classical liberal ideal). That would be revolutionary.

Lived their lives as they chose to live. That's a real victory, don't you think, living as you choose to live?

It was a concept that dazzled her. Doing what she wanted when she wanted, at her own pace and in her own way.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

The need for freedom was as natural as

Losing all hope was freedom.

It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.

Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.

Únicamente cuando se pierde todo somos libres para actuar.

Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad