Quotes About Liberty

Most pepole do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibilities, and most people are frightened of them.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

You're free to be free, just break the shackles and run loose.

Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression.

In America we were given freedom, some of us choose to honor that freedom and some of us choose to take advantage of it.

The joys of being single: Do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for whatever reason you want and never have to justify it to anyone.

Your freedom will be expressed by your choices.

Freedom without liberty is a body without soul.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

It's not easy to achieve freedom without chaos.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Freedom is not enough.

How much does free cost?