Quotes About Liberty

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

A fig for those by law protected!Liberty's a glorious feast!Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!

Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself.

I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Be Free!, That I want to Be !

We are only enslaved in our mind.

Two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch may be an example of democracy, but it hardly serves as an enduring model of liberty.

Do you know, I don't object to anyone's having prejudices so long as those prejudices don't interfere with my personal liberty.

Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.

Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

Freedom is the Key to Happiness.

I never did think that my own conundrum was a matter either of science or of social convention. I thought it was a matter of the spirit, a kind of divine allegory, and that explanations of it were not very important anyway. What was important was the liberty of us all to live as we wished to live, to love however we wanted to love, and to know ourselves, however peculiar, disconcerting or unclassifiable, at one with the gods and angels.

To help pass the time, William set to work writing. He called the first tract he wrote in Newgate Prison The Great Case for Liberty of Conscience. In the tract he argued that a person could be free only if he or she had choices to make, and when those choices were made for a person by someone over him or her, everyone loses out. People must be allowed to test the truth of their beliefs for themselves and see if that was what they really believed or merely what they had been made to believe.

305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~

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