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Quotes About Liberty

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.
~ Unknown
Everyone is born with the power to choose for themselves; to lead a life on their own premises, without any restrictions as to whom they may be or what they may do. Don't waste that power.
~ Unknown
The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical
~ Thomas Jefferson
The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery
~ Unknown
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~ Jimmy Carter
There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action.
~ William Somerset Maugham
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
~ Wayne Dyer
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
~ Unknown
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
~ Unknown
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
~ Marco Rubio
But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
~ Marco Rubio
Then isn't it better to do what's up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn't, like a slave or a beggar?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Ideals of liberty , freedom and righteousness do not prosper in the 20th century excepts they coincide with oil, rubber, gold, diamond, coal, iron, sugar, coffee, and such other minerals and products desired by the privileged, capitalists and leaders who control the system of government.
~ Marcus Garvey
Climb ye the heights of liberty and cease not in well doing until you have planted the banner of the Red, the Black and the Green on the hilltops of Africa.
~ Marcus Garvey
Hail! United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man's liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, A new life for the race is just begun.
~ Marcus Garvey
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is more than one kind of freedom... Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
~ Margaret Atwood
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
~ Margaret Atwood