Quotes About Liberty

GIVE ME LIBERTY …

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

I don't run behind authority.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

I'm 60 years old, and I want to enjoy life, and I want to be free to speak for my country.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

This is America. You're entitled to believe what you want.

Ukrainians are entitled to decide their own future.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Ningún hombre debería verse obligado a comprar su libertad.

La cultura nos hará libres para evitar la superstición con la que pretenden envolver nuestra vida los curas y los frailes y, sobre todo, para educar a nuestros hijos en la virtud, en la libertad, en la igualdad y en la fraternidad…

Freedome in AMERICA

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

The fact is, my dear friend, love of the truth is higher and purer than any other. The truth, however poor and naked it may be, is more lovable and more holy than any sumptuous, dressed-up falsehood. And thus every time I'm able remove some flounce or frill from you, my heart leaps in my breast and a triumphal crown girds my head. Blessed be that philosophy that teaches us that though we be mortal, weak and unhappy, we can be great in equality, liberty and love!

Equality as it is currently pursued is incompatible with true liberty; for liberty involves an inner working with reference to standards, the right subordination, in other words, of man's ordinary will to a higher will. There is an inevitable clash, in short, between equality and humility.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out .