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Quotes About Liberty

You were free, you are free and you will be free.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Give me liberty or give me death.".]
~ Patrick Henry
Carmen will always be free.
~ Unknown
The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.
~ Orrin Woodward
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
~ Tacitus
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
~ John Rawls
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.
~ Mark Epstein
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
~ Abraham Lincoln
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
~ Dalai Lama
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
~ Susan B. Anthony
He who desires naught will always be free.
~ Unknown
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
~ Ronald Reagan
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
What is liberty? The measure of dignity.
~ Giannina Braschi
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
~ Bianca Jagger
Only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
~ Albert Einstein