Quotes About Liberty

Freedom is never free.

Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]

the advantages of bachelorhood: being able to get into bed from either side.

La paz significa en la mayoría de los casos una vida serena, la disponibilidad de lo necesario, la dignidad de no tener que implorar piedad. La paz puede significar también libertad, si es administrada sabiamente.

I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.

The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.

Only in return for death, destruction and grief as gifts can we see the paradise of independence.

Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.

To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

Your choices are your only freedom.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.