Quotes About Liberty

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Freedom exists only with power.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Freedom begins between the ears.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

No one who lives in error is free.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.