Quotes About Liberty

An earnest exhortation to stand fast in the liberty of the gospel. (1-12)

The liberty of God's people is a heavy grievance to their enemies, Esth. 5:12, 13; Acts 5:17, 33.

It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

Every part of Divine revelation has its use, in bringing the sinner to Christ for salvation, and in directing and encouraging him to walk at liberty, by the Spirit of adoption, according to the holy commands of God. And

Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be," he explained.86

Through the whole course of history, two distinct willpowers have been noticed that would seem to be the opposed, elemental manifestations of the spirit of our globe, the one seeking only evil, injustice, tyranny and suffering, while the other strives for liberty, the right, radiance and joy.

However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment's forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from without. The simplest lie to myself, buried though it may be in the silence of my soul, may yet be as dangerous to my inner liberty as an act of treachery on the marketplace. Widfom and Destiny

There is no freedom without a field.

After more than five years of strife in the name of freedom, tens of millions of people were merely to exchange one tyranny for another. Some

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Das Gefängnis betritt man gewöhnlich nicht freiwillig und bleibt auch selten freiwillig darin, sondern hegt das egoistische Verlangen nach Freiheit.

The man who is set free is nothing but a freed man, a libertinus, a dog dragging a piece of chain with him: he is an unfree man in the garment of freedom, like the ass in the lion's skin.

Political freedom means this: that the polis, the state, is free; religious freedom this: that religion is free, just as freedom of conscience indicates that conscience is free; thus, it does not that I am free from state, from religion, from conscience, or that I am rid of them. It does not mean my freedom, but the freedom of a power that rules and vanquishes me; it means that one of my oppressors, like state, religion, conscience, is free.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Život je izbor a ne sudbina, jer obi?an ?ovjek živi kako mora, a pravi kako ho?e. Život na koji se bez otpora pristaje to je bijedno tavorenje, a izabrani život je sloboda. ?ovjek postaje slobodan svojom odlukom, otporom i nepristajanjem.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.

I want an uncircumscribed world.

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

As Margaret would later write, Europe had come to seem "my America," an unsettled territory where liberty was at hand, while the New World she had left behind had grown "stupid with the lust of gain, soiled by crime in its willing perpetuation of slavery, shamed by an unjust war," the imperialist conflict with Mexico over the annexation of Texas.

Illness "controlled her without making her feel that her liberty was invaded,

But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.