Quotes About Liberty

For enslaved people who had spent their entire lives under the shadow of the whip, without any military training of experience with guns, to one day pick up a firearm or a machete or even a rock and oppose a superior force must have taken an extraordinary level of nerve. The thirst for liberty was powerful enough to overcome even the fear of probable death.

In our democracy no man should tell another man to break the law, nor should any man break the law to by-pass Parliament. But a person who is punished for breaking an unjust law may if he is sincere and his cause wins public sympathy, create a public demand to have that unjust law changed through Parliament. This is the first and most fundamental principle of British democracy. It has a deep moral significance. Our religious and political liberties rest upon it.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

Vosotros queréis la libertad —señaló el elfo que parecía tener cuernos. Jared se percató de que en realidad eran hojas—. Nosotros queremos el libro de Arthur.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be

forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Murray Rothbard.

Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.

Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

in the mean time I take the liberty of sending you this hermaphroditic crab, whose singularity I am sure your keen eye will appreciate

When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.

As he later remarked, sometimes freedom can become as repressive as direct repression.

the freedom of pandemonium

The remark, for instance, that the only freedoms we really appreciate are those which cast others into an equivalent state of servitude.

Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.