Quotes About Liberty

Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

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.

You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, &c., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems.

It is the need not of liberty but of servitude that is always predominant in the soul of crowds. They are so bent on obedience that they instinctively submit to whoever declares himself their master.

Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with trammels increasingly burdensome. They do not accept this legislation with impunity. Accustomed to put up with every yoke, they soon end by desiring servitude, and lose all spontaneousness and energy.

I've taken the liberty of sending your work to America. One of our former colonies across the water. They've handled their independence rather well, I always think.

I... would not expect that freedom could be found or won without a price paid.

Could one forget how to be free?

I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!

With these high winds I've so hurried that here I am at last in pity's doorway. —Or maybe he was a poor wretch of a human being avid to the point of folly for liberty he wanted the dream to come true: descend from neither father nor mother nor historical memory, be the author of an authorless young man even just for a day, perhaps dream a short week away, let's say some some kind of unlimited eternity—the time of an elevator trip from false to true, ...

Sometimes what you're afraid of doing. Is the very thing that will set you free.

Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

No serás el dueño de otros ni tampoco su esclavo.

Cat's away the mice will play.

My poor friends, you are free—free as air. You can cast off the name of slave and trample upon it. . . . Liberty is your birthright. . . . But you must try to deserve this priceless boon. Let the world see that you merit it, and are able to maintain it by your good works. Don't let your joy carry you into excesses. Learn the laws and obey them. . . . There, now, let me pass on; I have but little time to spare. I want to see the capital.

Not only did Confederate soldiers fight better; they also fought for a noble cause, the cause of state's rights, constitutional liberty, and consent of the governed. Slavery had nothing to do with it.

James M. McPherson

essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property.

The South was rebelling "not in the interest of general humanity, but of a domestic despotism. … Their motto is not liberty, but slavery.

He warned that those "who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

American whites somehow were able collectively to love liberty, recognize the evils of slavery, and tolerate slavery, all at the same

licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.