Quotes About Liberty

You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Man is free rather than man is freedom.

Din clipa în care libertatea a f?cut explozie în sufletul unui om, zeii nu mai pot face nimic împotriva lui. Asta-i o treab? omeneasc?, ÅŸi numai ceilalÅ£i oameni - numai ei - au c?derea s?-l lase în libertate sau s?-l strîngâ de gît.

For a consciousness to be capable of imagining…it needs to be free.

Gesti, gesti, piccole distruzioni, che cosa significano, io ho creduto che questa fosse la libertà.

Non ci si può mettere il passato in tasca; bisogna avere una casa per sistemarvelo. Io non possiedo che il mio corpo; un uomo completamente solo, col suo corpo soltanto, non può fermare i ricordi, gli passano attraverso. Non dovrei lagnarmi: il mio solo desiderio è stato d'esser libero.

Je ne suis ni le maître ni l'esclave, Jupiter. Je suis ma liberté! À peine m'as-tu créé que j'ai cessé de t'appartenir

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.