Quotes About Liberty

Philosophers hold liberty and justice to be universal and necessary concepts because they know of no societies other than those founded on private property.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

that the ability of oppressed people throughout the world to exercise genuine self-determination would strengthen liberty in the United States. This idea of emancipatory internationalism was born of centuries of struggle against slavery, colonialism, and oppression in the Americas. When Martin Luther King connected the lives of Vietnamese villagers with the prospects of Black youths in South Central Los Angeles he was drawing on an extraordinary fountain of experiential wisdom.

the Haitian Revolution was the inspiration for the pursuit of liberty in the Americas.

To the memory of the glorious Ninety-two: members of the Honorable House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who, undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power, from a strict regard to conscience and the liberties of their constituents on the 30th of June 1768 voted not to rescind.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

It's a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values, those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us such a great and exceptional nation in the first place.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master - any master - then let the rest of us know, will you.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born.

We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from.

I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they're not at all the same thing.

How many human beings remain in this world, unvanquished and at liberty in plains like these? So few, so few. Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Universal experience," he began, proved the necessity of "the most express declarations and reservations … to protect the just rights and liberty of Mankind from the Silent, powerful, and ever active conspiracy of those who govern." The new Constitution should therefore "be bottomed upon a declaration, or Bill of Rights, clearly and precisely stating the principles upon which the Social Compact is founded.

Her freedom was worse than any chains.

in order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Nay, a reckoning I might ask For the life, love, liberty That through thee I've lost so long: Thine 'tis rather to thank me, That I do not claim from thee Compensation for my wrong.

How can it be justified And how can it be right For God to give freedom - Sweet And Beautiful Freedom - To give it to a stream, a fish, A brute and a bird And deny it to a human being!

Nace el ave, y con las galas que le dan belleza suma, apenas es flor de pluma, o ramillete con alas, cuando las etéreas salas corta con velocidad, negándose a la piedad del nido que dejan en calma; ¿y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.