Quotes About Liberty

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

I've never liked feeling closed in.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

I find clothes so constricting!

I am not a communist.

We are not communists.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

Let's swear as brothers that we won't rest until we gain freedom.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.