Quotes About Liberty

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.