Quotes About Liberty

The liberty that the free world had enjoyed over the last century was nothing more than an anomaly. A momentary pause between the priests and nobles of antiquity and the politicians and billionaires of the new age. A momentary pause that was coming to its end.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Cierra con llave tus bibliotecas, si quieres, pero no hay barrera, cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente.

Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.

That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Cierra con llave tus bibliotecas, si quieres, pero no hay barrera, cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente.

One must have been something of a firebrand to say to oneself, Oh, but they can't buy literature too. Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Chiudete a doppia mandata le vostre biblioteche, se volete; ma non c'è nessun cancello, nessun lucchetto, nessun catenaccio che potete mettere alla libertà della mia mente.

If one didn't feel that politics are an elaborate game got up to keep a pack of men trained for that sport in condition, one might be dismal; one sometimes is dismal; sometimes I try to worry out what some of the phrases we're ruled by mean. I doubt whether most people even do that. Liberty, for instance.

Si doveva avere la tempra di una testa calda per dire a se stesse, Oh, ma non possono comprare anche la letteratura. La letteratura è aperta a tutti. Non ti riconosco l'autorità, anche se sei il guardiano, di scacciarmi dal prato. Chiudete pure a chiave le vostre biblioteche se volete, ma non c'è cancello, serratura o chiavistello che possiate mettere alla libertà della mia mente.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

E poi, ora che era condannato, abbandonato da tutti, completamente solo, come è solo chi sta per morire, c'era un privilegio in questo, un isolamento che aveva del sublime, una libertà che chi ha legami non potrà mai conoscere.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.

Freedom for the moment is everything

the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. However, I am being left in that ignorance which is tolerable only to those living at liberty

Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, & life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

What shall I tell my children?...You tell me- 'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.

Why a bird?" Another shrug. "They're free you know? They can go anywhere they want, whenever they want. They can just spread their wings and go.

I am reminded once again that the best things about America are the little things, the little freedoms that Americans don't think twice about.

America is all about freedom of choice.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Dee warned "neither France, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, nor any other country can have such liberty for invasion