Quotes About Liberty

Meritocracy is all about positive liberty, about the endeavour to perfect humanity and create an earthly paradise. It's not afraid of legitimate authority – authority exercised in the interests of all. It's wholly opposed to privilege, excessive wealth, dynastic rule, inheritance and anyone seeking power in order to serve his own self-interest and particular will rather the interests of all and the General Will.

We seek to replace the prevailing value system based on extraverted, irrational, superstitious, ignorant, emotional narratives (Mythos), and master-slave systems embedded throughout society, with an introverted, rational, knowledgeable Logos society devoid of privilege and unhealthy master-slaves relationships. We are for the liberty of the autonomous individual within the constraints set by rational laws designed to promote the benefit of all.

American civil religion values human liberty and rights as a divine gift and considers it, perhaps on par with strength, as one of the highest national values. The protection and furtherance of freedom is therefore a divine mandate and mission.

The liberty of this country and its great interests will never be secure if its public men become mere menials to do the biddings of their constituents instead of being representatives in the true sense of the word, looking to the lasting prosperity and future interests of the whole country.489

ancient theories of justice start with virtue, while modern theories start with freedom. And

Government may not interfere with individual liberty in order to protect a person from himself, or to impose the majority's beliefs about how best to live. The only actions for which a person is accountable to society, Mill argues, are those that affect others. As long as I am not harming anyone else, my "independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."19

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. —LUKE 4:18–19

The Constitution is like a "No Guns Zone" sign for conservatives, in that the only people it would bind are those who are already generally honest and peaceable. The ones who would lie or commit harm would simply look at the piece of paper and scoff. With unrelenting logic, Spooner dissects the sanctity of the Constitution and demonstrates that it cannot be said to have moral authority over anyone.

Liberty is the object of the Republic. Liberty needs virtue. Virtue among the people is impossible without religion.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

Classical theorists (foremost John Locke, a British philosopher greatly admired by the founders) captured the predicament in the idea of a preconstitutional "state of nature." In that state, Locke contended, free and equal persons hold broad rights to life, liberty, and property. However, they lack the means of enforcing those rights.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The Liberty Principle: It is a higher moral principle to always seek liberty with someone else's liberty in mind, and never seek liberty when it leads to someone else's loss of liberty through force or fraud. The Liberty Principle is an extrapolation from the fundamental principle of all liberty as practiced in Western society: The freedom to believe and act as we choose so long as our beliefs and actions do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

Liberty did not on any account mean license.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

TotuÈ™i, în anumite circumstanÈ›e, extrem de rare – creÈ™tinii vorbesc de minuni ale harului – o nou? und? de coeren?? apare È™i se propag? în creier; un nou comportament apare, temporar sau definitiv, determinat de un sistem total diferit de oscilaÈ›ii armonice; atunci se observ? ceea ce numim un act liber.

Se pare c? alte fiinÅ£e umane aparent asem?n?toare cu mine nu simt nicio emoÅ£ie în faÅ£a unui trup de femeie, ceea ce mie îmi provoca ÅŸi înc? îmi provoac? uneori transe irepresibile. În cele mai multe împrejur?ri ale vieÅ£ii mele am fost aproape la fel de liber ca un aspirator.

Fenómeno raro, artificial y tardío, el amor sólo puede nacer en condiciones mentales especiales, que pocas veces se reúnen, y que son de todo punto opuestas a la libertad de costumbres que caracteriza la época moderna.

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton, It's a Good Old World