Quotes About Liberty

The professed object of war generally is to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace: but war never did and never will preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace, for it is a divine decree that all nations who take the sword shall perish with the sword. War is no more adapted to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace than midnight darkness is to produce noonday light.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

We will suggest that there is a reason why so many key Enlightenment thinkers insisted that their ideals of individual liberty and political equality were inspired by Native American sources and examples. Because it was true.

The English word "free," for instance, is derived from a German root meaning "friend," since to be free meant to be able to make friends, to keep promises, to live within a community of equals.

Liberty grew because it served the interests of power. This apparent paradox was the core of Western identity.

Planning and control are being attacked as a denial of freedom. Free enterprise and private ownership are declared to be essentials of freedom. No society built on other foundations is said to deserve to be called free. The freedom that regulation creates is denounced as unfreedom; the justice, liberty and welfare it offers are decried as a camouflage of slavery.35 The

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are commonly neglected.

In all governments, there is a perpetual intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty; and neither of them can ever absolutely prevail in the contest.

L]iberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence...

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind, is lost all at once.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

To be a free man, one must have a universe of one's own

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Or does not knowing make him free?

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.