Quotes About Liberty

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

To achieve a society that exhibits liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy, the object to change first and foremost is production.

Keynes was patrician in outlook. He suspected that liberty was incompatible with equality, and had a sharp preference for liberty over the chimera of equality.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Hume decreed that "Liberty is the perfection of society," but believed equally that "authority must be acknowledged as essential to its [freedom's] very existence.

Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened. If people want to smoke cigarettes, to eat a lot of candy, to choose an unsuitable health care plan, or to fail to save for retirement, libertarian paternalists will not force them to do otherwise—

Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely and voluntarily) resist it. If we ask the waiter to select a good bottle of wine to go with our dinner, we will not be happy if he says that we should just choose for ourselves!

A sailor's liberty is but for a day; yet while it lasts it is perfect.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. JOHN 8:32

She began to do as she liked and to feel as she liked.

I know I shall like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence.

What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don't understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license.

I had a spot on one of the open lower decks, jammed with men, but my height granted me a view of the Statue of Liberty receding in the golden light, a sentimental sight that nevertheless provoked my sentiments. How many crimes, I wonder now—how many blunders worse than crimes—get committed in her name?

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin

An evident principle runs through the whole program," Wilson had said. "It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak." Tears had come to Gus's eyes when he had read these words. "The people of the United States could act upon no other principle," Wilson had said.

There had been a wonderful atmosphere of liberation and camaraderie. The Russians hated it.

Sostenemos como certeza manifiesta que todos los hombres fueron creados por igual».

They may compel their child to work in the mine until he reaches the age of twenty-one, but' Ã¢â'¬Âââ'¬â€Mack paused dramatically and read the next bit very slowly—" Ã¢â'¬Ëœbut then he will be free to leave!

El socialismo significa libertad, incluso para los contrarrevolucionarios.

justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

In understandably wishing to increase freedom and liberty, it paradoxically left massive road kill everywhere on the highway to rational heaven.