Quotes About Liberty

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.