Quotes About Liberty

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

I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

I can live again! I can breathe again! I can have my hatred! I can have my revenge! And I can get the hell out of New Jersey!

To exercise what Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called a right that is "at the heart of liberty"— namely, the right to determine for oneself the meaning of life and the mystery of human existence—is to tell God, "Get off my throne.

The freedom to choose not to choose. Choosing nothing instead of something.

I view [your undertaking]," Jefferson would write to Astor, "as the germ of a great, free and independent empire on that side of our continent, and that liberty and self-government spreading from that side as well as this side, will ensure their complete establishment over the whole.

T]his is the land of liberty and equality, where a man sees and feels that he is a man merely, and that he can no longer exist, [except if] he can himself procure the means of support. —Robert Stuart, journal postscript for October 13, 1812, while starving in today's Wyoming, shortly before discovering the South Pass

With Britain distracted by the Napoleonic Wars, President Jefferson felt compelled to get there first—before his long-hated British, with their "bastard liberty," and who, as he contemptuously put it, "would not lose the sale of a bale of fur for the freedom of the whole world." On

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Its purpose was to defend democracy in this country, first of all. Then to defend the principles of freedom of thought and expression.

Scegli in cosa credere, la vera libertà è la consapevolezza del reale.

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity

No one is more empowered by free speech than the historically marginalized and dispossessed. I'll repeat Frederick Douglass's declaration from 1860: free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." He argued that "slavery cannot tolerate free speech" and that "five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South.

As Frederick Douglass wrote in 1860, free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." Free speech, "of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power."4

To a modern mind, hegemonic liberty is an idea at war with itself.

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, six generations of American scholars were mostly Whig historians of their nation. Their work tended to center on ideas of liberty and freedom, equal rights and republican self-government. Major themes were the triumph of those ideas and institutions over tyranny and slavery.

New generations of scholars continued to study the same subjects, but in a very different spirit. Their work tended to center less on American liberty, freedom, equality, and democracy. It gave more attention to American slavery, racism, inequality, injustice, and corruption.

It was this rallying of the Republican troops, who turned out in record crowds during the campaign, that led Trump to call what he had created a "movement." It is a movement, first of all, anchored in its opposition to the Democrats' collectivism and in defense of individual liberty.

America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.