Quotes About Liberty

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The more free you are, the more you tend to experience your power.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

I don't need a man to make it happen, I get off being free.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Being independent is the best choice anyone can ever make. Don't rely on someone else for happiness, ever. You make it happen.

The moment you stop caring about what other people think of you is when you'll know what true freedom is.

I want to live my life, knowing no one will be judging me watching every move I make. I don't want to live up to anyone's expectations, I want to be free do what I want to do..